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Album Review: Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe (Capitol)

by Greg Szeto | May 4th 2009, 9:00 AM
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MP3: Depeche Mode – In Chains

I have a hard time imagining Depeche Mode ever delivering an album that doesn’t possess some merit or pull for me.  Much like Morrissey’s release earlier in the year, Sounds of the Universe holds no real surprises, no shocking reinventions.  What it does offer is yet another solid entry into a massive catalog of enrapturing new wave that consistently proves the genre has life left.

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