Track Listing 1. Love, In Itself 2. More Than a Party 3. Pipeline 4. Everything Counts 5. Two Minute Warning 6. Shame 7. Landscape Is Changing, The 8. Told You So 9. And Then... 10. Everything Counts - (long version)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 50 min. | | Producer: | Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Depeche Mode: David Gahan (vocals); Martin Gore (keyboards, synthesizer, background vocals); Andrew Fletcher, Alan Wilder (keyboards, synthesizer). Recorded at The Garden, London, England. Having proven his abilities as a pop craftsman on the previous year's A BROKEN FRAME, DM main songwriter Martin Gore gets down to the business of developing a new sonic language for himself and his bandmates on CONSTRUCTION TIME. Earlier in its career, Depeche Mode tried to make its synthesizer-only arrangements seem warm and fuzzy, but here the band embraces the Kraftwerk-pioneered tradition of exploiting the synthesizer's inherent inorganic qualities for their intrinsic beauty. In addition to straying further from the poppy approach of previous albums, the group incorporates industrial-oriented sounds as an important part of the arrangements, lending an ominous, machine-like tone to many of the songs. The once-chipper group's growing disenchantment with the outside world begins to flower here as well, most notably on the anti-music biz observations of "Everything Counts."
Editorial Reviews 4 Stars - Excellent - ...Machine-made drums take on an ostentatious inventiveness, the themes (monetarism, deforestation, armageddon) are writ large... Q (08/01/1995)
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