Memento Mori
A post-Fletch Mode channel grief into deluxe autumnal electro-blues.
A sombre landmark for Basildon’s stadium-rocking techno-pop titans, ‘MementoMori’ is the first Depeche Mode album without Andrew ‘Fletch’ Fletcher, who died suddenly last year. Recording began before Fletch’s passing, so it would be fanciful to extrapolate too much from that funereal title. Mode albums typically come in 50 shades of deluxe misery, after all.