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Studio album by Depeche Mode
Released 22 March 2013
Recorded March–October 2012
Studio
Sound Design (Santa Barbara, California)
Jungle City (New York City)
Genre
Electropopindustrial[1]
Length 57:55
Label
ColumbiaMute
Producer Ben Hillier
Depeche Mode chronology
Remixes 2: 81–11
(2011) Delta Machine
(2013) Spirit
(2017)

Delta Machine is the thirteenth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 22 March 2013 by Columbia and Mute Records. It is the band`s first album released under Columbia. Recorded in 2012 in Santa Barbara, California, and New York City, the album was produced by Ben Hillier and mixed by Flood, who had previously worked with the band on their albums Violator (1990) and Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993).[2] A deluxe edition was also released, containing a bonus disc with four bonus tracks, as well as a 28-page hardcover book including photos by Anton Corbijn.[2]

`Heaven` was released as the album`s lead single on 31 January 2013.[3] The second single from the album, `Soothe My Soul`, was released on 10 May 2013,[4] followed by `Should Be Higher` on 11 October 2013.[5] Following the album`s release, Depeche Mode embarked on the Delta Machine Tour, which commenced in Nice, France, on 4 May 2013, and concluded in Moscow on 7 March 2014.[6]

Background and composition
Thematically, much of the album is written from a personal point of view. Martin Gore said that the opening track `Welcome to My World` is `written from a much more personal point of view. I feel more at peace with my life and much better physically`.[7] Dave Gahan also explained how getting cancer affected his songwriting on the track `Secret to the End` inspiring the line `is this the end?`.[8] Lyrically, the song `Slow` is about `the joy of sex` as Gore described in an interview with Steffen Rüth.[9] Gahan wrote about his struggle with substance abuse on the track `Should Be Higher` explaining that he won`t even drink a glass of wine anymore because it could open a Pandora`s box.[10] Gore also felt that `Goodbye` sounds like a Beatles song but is hesitant to make that comparison.[11]

According to Gahan, Delta Machine marks the end of the trilogy of records that Depeche Mode were recording with producer Ben Hillier, though the sound of this album differs from past albums.[12] The album is Gore and Gahan`s thematic continuation to a dark, gloomy and bluesy aesthetic that Depeche Mode had started to explore in the late 1980s. The Quietus writer Luke Turner viewed it as the band`s `most powerful, gothic, twisted, electronic album since Violator`.[13] The sound of the album is also notable for its use of modular synthesisers. While `Welcome to My World` was built around a synth loop, other tracks such as `Heaven` were entirely written on the piano.[14] The band debated leaving the song `My Little Universe` off the album due to its more techno sound that made it stand out. The song was also massively changed from Gore`s demo.[15] The song `Slow` was originally written by Gore as far back as the early 1990s for Songs of Faith and Devotion, but was pushed aside until the Delta Machine sessions taking on a much more bluesy sound. Currently it is the first song written by Martin Gore known to have been written and shelved before eventually seeing use on an album years after the time of its writing.[16]

All tracks are written by Martin L. Gore, except where noted. All lead vocals by Dave Gahan, except where noted

No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length
1. `Welcome to My World` 4:56
2. `Angel` 3:57
3. `Heaven` 4:03
4. `Secret to the End`
Dave GahanKurt Uenala
5:12
5. `My Little Universe` 4:24
6. `Slow` 3:45
7. `Broken`
GahanUenala
3:58
8. `The Child Inside` Gore 4:16
9. `Soft Touch/Raw Nerve` 3:26
10. `Should Be Higher`
GahanUenala
5:04
11. `Alone` 4:29
12. `Soothe My Soul`
GahanGore
5:22
13. `Goodbye` 5:03
Total length: 57:55

Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Delta Machine.[39]

Depeche Mode
Andy Fletcher
Dave Gahan
Martin Gore
Additional musicians
Christoffer Berg – programming
Kurt Uenala – additional programming
Technical
Ben Hillier – production
Ferg Peterkin – engineering
Kurt Uenala – vocal recording
Tomas del Toro-Diaz – engineering assistance
Will Loomis – engineering assistance
Dan Tobiason – engineering assistance
Flood – mixing at Assault & Battery 2 (London)
Rob Kirwan – mix engineering
Drew Smith – mix assistance
Bunt Stafford-Clark – mastering at Pierce Rooms (London)
Artwork
Anton Corbijn – design, photography, backprojection images
Anja Grabert – backprojection images