Title: Why did this take four years to come up with?
Review: To say that 'playing the angel' is simplistic and pedantic would be much the same as stating that drawing a crooked line on a sheet of paper somehow requires a ruler.It's all down to the producer(s), which are all Depeche Mode have left. The kindly gentlmen from various production houses who want to add something 'impressive' and 'original' to their resumes. It's no accident that Flood will not have anything to do with them.I will state it, bluntly, this band should have stopped when Alan Wilder left. There is no other way to view it; ignore all the talk of analogue equipment being brought back in for the making of this album.Depeche Mode have obviously been listening to bands who sound like them, there is no other explanation for such a banal and derivative clunker like 'playing the angel' (or perhaps it should have been titled 'playing the angle' as it is quite calculated).If this one isn't the end god help us.
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