Depeche Mode: Faith And Devotion
Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 27 May 1994
DEPECHE MODE emerged from within one of the most confused periods British pop has ever undergone, a period during which punk's predatory napalm was still fresh in mind, but the betrayal of those ideals was even fresher.
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