Sony Music Depeche Mode - Violator

1990 ( remaster 2017 )

Alan Wilder, Andrew Fletcher,  Dave Gahan,  Martin Gore

"Violator" este cel de-al saptelea album de studio al formatiei Depeche Mode, lansat in 1990, si este considerat unul dintre cele mai influente albume din istoria muzicii electronice.
Albumul include hit-uri precum "Personal Jesus", "Enjoy the Silence" și "Policy of Truth". Sunetul albumului combina sintetizatoare puternice, beat-uri de dans și voci calde, abordand teme precum religia, iubirea și noul stil de viata. "Violator" a fost produs de Flood si inregistrat in studiourile PUK din Danemarca.
Este un album esential pentru fanii Depeche Mode si pentru oricine isi doreste sa exploreze sunetul muzicii electronice din anii '90.

Tracklist
A1 World In My Eyes
A2 Sweetest Perfection
A3 Personal Jesus
A4 Halo
A5 Waiting For The Night

B1 Enjoy The Silence
B2 Policy Of Truth
B3 Blue Dress
B4 Clean

[ Rolling Stone ] : When synth-pop trailblazers Depeche Mode put out their darkly hued seventh album, Violator, a quarter of a century ago, it was an event. The Beatles may have had Beatlemania, but the group had their own bloodthirsty zombie horde willing to crush anything standing between them and their favorite band. One day after the record came out, a mob of more than 10,000 fans shut down a small section of Los Angeles surrounding a record store where the group was doing a signing. The Depeche Mode faithful pushed on the shop’s windows so forcefully that the glass wobbled and ultimately cost the city some $25,000 to disperse 130 policemen in riot gear to subdue the band’s unruly disciples.

Thanks to a string of hypnotizing, sexually charged singles – the cheekily gothic “Personal Jesus,” sensually serene “Enjoy the Silence,” otherworldly and bluesy “Policy of Truth” – the record quickly became the band’s best-selling LP, reaching Number Seven on Billboard and going triple platinum. But aside from its commercial success, the LP signaled a new era for the band: In less than a decade, they’d gone from swiveling their butts to their new-wave gem “Just Can’t Get Enough” to creating the brooding, cinematic and mysterious post-goth masterpieces of Violator. Why does singer Dave Gahan sound so fragile yet hopeful on “Waiting for the Night”? How can “Blue Dress” come off so beautiful yet creepy? What is the underlying message to their Pink Floyd riffing on “Clean”? The record’s enduring mysteries echo today in the number of times artists ranging from Marilyn Manson to Susan Boyle have covered Violator’s songs.

The band’s Martin Gore, who wrote every song on the album and played its minimalistic and snaky guitar lines, fondly remembers the fun surrounding the making of the record. “During that time in our career, we were quite experimental in our choices of recording locations, and we loved the idea of going off and making each album an adventure,” he tells Rolling Stone, looking back at the record after discussing his upcoming MG solo LP for an upcoming article. “We recorded the majority of Violator in Milan, which was really good fun. How we got anything done, I don’t know because we were out partying most nights.”