Artist: DEPECHE MODE
Album: CONSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN RE-ISSUE (CD)

Release date: 1983/ 2007
EAN/UPS: 886444049139
Media type: CD

Construction Time Again is the third proper studio album by Depeche Mode. Released on August 22, 1983, it saw two shifts in DM's sound. First, the lyrical content started to deepen, featuring lyrics dealing with more worldly issues, and secondly, their instrumentation started to take on darker textures, moving away from pure analog synthesizer sounds and instead making great use of new digital sampling techniques. Black Celebration, released three years later, took this flavouring and cemented it as a permanent feature in DM's future works. This was the first DM album with Alan Wilder.

The album was recorded at John Foxx's Garden studios in London, engineered by Gareth Jones (who had also engineered Foxx's seminal electronic album, Metamatic). It was mixed in the famous Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin (where much of David Bowie's trilogy of seminal electronic albums featuring Brian Eno had been produced).

The album's cover photo features the Matterhorn mountain.

TRACKLIST:

"Love, in Itself" – 4:29
"More Than A Party" – 4:45
"Pipeline" – 5:54
"Everything Counts" – 4:19
"Two Minute Warning" – 4:13
"Shame" – 3:50
"The Landscape Is Changing" – 4:47
"Told You So" – 4:24
"And Then..." – 4:34
"Everything Counts (Reprise)" – 1:05

LINE-UP:

Andrew Fletcher
David Gahan
Martin Gore
Alan Wilder