Depeche Mode – Construction Time Again (1983) [DMCD3 – Remaster 2007] {SACD ISO + FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz}

Construction Time Again is the third studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 22 August 1983 by Mute Records.[1] This was the first Depeche Mode album with Alan Wilder as a full band member, who wrote the songs “Two Minute Warning” and “The Landscape Is Changing”, as well as the B-side “Fools”. The title comes from the second line of the first verse of the track “Pipeline”. It was supported by the Construction Time Again Tour.

The album was recorded at John Foxx’s Garden Studios in London, engineered by Gareth Jones (who had also engineered Foxx’s 1980 album Metamatic) and mixed at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin.

The full addition of Alan Wilder to Depeche Mode’s lineup created a perfect troika that would last another 11 years, as the combination of Martin Gore’s songwriting, Wilder’s arranging, and David Gahan’s singing and live star power resulted in an ever more compelling series of albums and singles. Construction Time Again, the new lineup’s first full effort, is a bit hit and miss nonetheless, but when it does hit, it does so perfectly. Right from the album’s first song, “Love in Itself,” something is clearly up; Depeche never sounded quite so thick with its sound before, with synths arranged into a mini-orchestra/horn section and real piano and acoustic guitar spliced in at strategic points. Two tracks later, “Pipeline” offers the first clear hint of an increasing industrial influence (the bandmembers were early fans of Einstürzende Neubauten), with clattering metal samples and oddly chain gang-like lyrics and vocals. The album’s clear highlight has to be “Everything Counts,” a live staple for years, combining a deceptively simple, ironic lyric about the music business with a perfectly catchy but unusually arranged blending of more metallic scraping samples and melodica amid even more forceful funk/hip-hop beats. Elsewhere, on “Shame” and “Told You So,” Gore’s lyrics start taking on more of the obsessive personal relationship studies that would soon dominate his writing. Wilder’s own songwriting contributions are fine musically, but lyrically, “preachy” puts it mildly, especially the environment-friendly “The Landscape Is Changing.” ~~ AllMusic Review by Ned Raggett

Tracklist:
01. Love, In Itself
02. More Than A Party
03. Pipeline
04. Everything Counts
05. Two Minute Warning
06. Shame
07. The Landscape Is Changing
08. Told You So
09. And Then…
10. Everything Counts (Reprise)

SACD ISO

DM-ISO-1983CnstructinTimeAgainDMCD32007RemasterSACDIS.part1.rar
DM-ISO-1983CnstructinTimeAgainDMCD32007RemasterSACDIS.part2.rar
DM-ISO-1983CnstructinTimeAgainDMCD32007RemasterSACDIS.part3.rar
DM-ISO-1983CnstructinTimeAgainDMCD32007RemasterSACDIS.part4.rar

FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz

DM-FLAC-1983CnstructinTimeAgainDMCD32007RemasterSACDIS.rar