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Black Celebration
Electronic · 1986 · 14 tracks

Black Celebration

Depeche Mode

A masterwork of industrial-tinged synth-pop. Dark, obsessive, and deeply romantic, it captures the sound of a city at its coldest hour.

March 17, 1986 · Mute (2)

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A claustrophobic yet beautiful exploration of intimacy and isolation in a cold, industrial world.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks
01
Black Celebration
4:57
02
Fly on the Windscreen (final)
5:19
03
A Question of Lust
4:19
04
Sometimes
1:54
05
It Doesn’t Matter Two
2:48
06
A Question of Time
4:09
07
Stripped
4:17
08
Here Is the House
4:16
09
World Full of Nothing
2:46
10
Dressed in Black
2:31
11
New Dress
3:41
12
Breathing in Fumes
6:05
13
But Not Tonight (extended remix)
5:09
14
Black Day
2:33
Moments Worth Listening For
the mechanical breathing and engine ignition samples that open the title track
the jarring transition from the death-obsessed Fly on the Windscreen into the vulnerable A Question of Lust
the heavy, metallic clanging that punctuates the rhythmic drive of Stripped
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How does Black Celebration sound next to the rest of Depeche Mode's catalogue?

Sample Based+2.3σ

The production is built around sample based than this artist usually allows.

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