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Infobox album | | Name = Songs of Faith and Devotion| Type = studio| Artist = Depeche Mode | Cover = SongsOfFaithAndDevotionRemastered.jpg| Released = 22 March 1993| Recorded = February 1992 - January 1993, Madrid , Hamburg , London Cite journal | last=Shaw | first=William | title=In The Mode | journal= Details (magazine)|Details magazine | url= http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/det010493/det010493main.htm | year=1993 | month=April | pages=90–95, 168 | accessdate=12 November 2011 | archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20081123003449/ http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/det010493/det010493main.htm | archivedate=23 November 2008| Genre = Alternative dance , synthpop | Length = 47:26| Label = Mute Records|Mute (UK), Sire Records|Sire / Reprise Records (U.S./Canada)| Producer = Depeche Mode, Flood (producer)|Flood | Last album = Violator (album)|Violator (1990)| This album = Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993)| Next album = Ultra (Depeche Mode album)|Ultra (1997)| Misc = Singles| Name = Songs of Faith and Devotion| Type = studio| single 1 = I Feel You | single 1 date = 15 February 1993| single 2 = Walking in My Shoes | single 2 date = 26 April 1993| single 3 = Condemnation (song)|Condemnation | single 3 date = September 13, 1993| single 4 = In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)|In Your Room | single 4 date = 10 January 1994Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = Rating|4|5Allmusic|class=album|id=r183222|first=Ned|last=Raggett|accessdate=1 July 2011| rev2 = Robert Christgau | rev2Score = Rating-Christgau|dudcite web |first=Robert|last=Christgau|year=1993|url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php? name=Depeche+Mode|title=Consumer Guide Reviews Depeche Mode|accessdate=3 July 2011| rev3 = Entertainment Weekly | rev3Score = (B)cite journal|first=Bill|last=Wyman|url= http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,306000,00.html|publisher= Entertainment Weekly |issue=163|date=26 March 1993|title=Songs of Faith and Devotion Review|accessdate=1 July 2011| rev4 = New York Times | rev4Score = (favorable) cite news| url= http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/arts/recordings-view-depeche-mode-escapes-the-cathedral.html? pagewanted=all& src=pm | work=New York Times | title=RECORDINGS VIEW; Depeche Mode Escapes the Cathedral | date=1993-03-21 | accessdate=2011-11-24 | first1=Jon | last1=Pareles| rev5 = The Guardian | rev5Score= (favorable)cite journal |first=Adam|last=Sweeting|title=Songs of Faith and Devotion Review|journal= The Guardian |url= http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/gua120393/gua120393main.htm |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090107010733/ http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/gua120393/gua120393main.htm |archivedate=7 January 2009 |date=12 March 1993|accessdate=14 October 2011| rev6 = NME | rev6Score = (8/10)cite journal |first=David|last=Quantick|title=That'll Be the Deity|journal= NME |url= http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/nme200393/nme200393main.htm |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090107012113/ http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/nme200393/nme200393main.htm |archivedate=7 January 2009 |date=20 March 1993 |accessdate=14 October 2011| rev7 = Q (magazine)|Q | rev7Score = Rating|4|5cite journal|first=Andy|last=Gill|title=Purged|journal= Q (magazine)|Q |url= http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/q010493/q010493main.htm |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20091024062504/ http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/q010493/q010493main.htm |archivedate=24 October 2009 |month=April |year=1993 |accessdate=14 October 2011| rev8 = Rolling Stone | rev8Score = Rating|3|5cite journal |first=Arion|last=Berger|journal= Rolling Stone |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/songs-of-faith-and-devotion-19930415|title=Songs of Faith and Devotion by Depeche Mode Review|date=15 April 1993|accessdate=1 July 2011| rev9 = Sputnikmusic | rev9Score = Rating|4|5cite web |publisher= Sputnikmusic |url= http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php? albumid=8821|title=Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion (album review)|date=14 Dec 2006 |accessdate=1 July 2011|noprose=yes Songs of Faith and Devotion is the eighth album by the British electronic music group Depeche Mode , released in 1993 on Mute Records in the UK and Sire Records|Sire / Reprise Records in the U.S. and Canada. The album incorporated more guitar textures than previous releases. Upon its release, Songs of Faith and Devotion reached number one in both the UK and US album charts. To support the album, Depeche Mode embarked on the fourteen-month Devotional Tour . As of 2006, Songs of Faith and Devotion has sold more than 920,000 units in the United States .Citation |url= http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat#/news/ask-billboard-1002312676.story |title=Billboard.com Chart Beat Chat|publisher=Billboard |accessdate=2010-02-27
Recording
Songs of Faith and Devotion was recorded over eight months in a rented villa in Madrid during 1992 cite journal |journal= Sound On Sound |title=Modus Operandi - SOS Magazine July 1993|url= http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/sos010793/sos010793main.htm |archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20090102230555/ http://www.sacreddm.net/1990s/sos010793/sos010793main.htm |archivedate=2 January 2009|first=Robert L.|last=Doerschuk|month=July|year=1993|accessdate=17 September 2011 as well as later sessions in Hamburg and London. Recording the album was slowed by Gahan's growing drug and alcohol addiction.
A studio was set up in the basement with two drum kits using different spaces to achieve different sounds. The drum kits could then be processed through synthesisers such as the large Roland Corporation|Roland System 700 the band installed in the studio. The band wanted to record something quite different from previous albums. They wanted to change as many things about their approach to making music as they possibly could. The band members had become aware of getting caught in easy routines leading to boredom.
One new approach to recording was performance. On previous recordings the band had relied more on sequencing than playing. The performance would then later be sequenced and processed in the studio. The band members did not feel capable of going into a room and playing together, they felt that applying technology made their sound more spontaneous and human. They wanted the sound of Songs of Faith and Devotion looser and less programmed.
Tracks like "I Feel You," which was not originally the lead-off track on the album until Alan Wilder fought for it to be that way, included real performed drums which were then sampled and sequenced to form drum loops, using Steinberg Cubase|Cubase , in a different structure from how they were originally performed; keeping all the dynamics of a human performance. Some of the embellishments like reversed cymbals were added later in the recording process by Alan Wilder who was nearly always the one to suggest such experimentation.
Further reversing techniques were used throughout the recordings such as the backwards piano recorded as part of the outro to the track "Mercy In You". The introduction to the track "Judas" has uillean pipes recorded normally with reversed reverberation mixed into the sound.
"Walking In My Shoes" included a processed piano part during the introduction. The piano was processed through a guitar processor to add distortion, making it sound more edgy. A harpsichord Sampling (music)|sample was the played and recorded over the top making a different layered sound.
The recording of the track "Condemnation" used some interesting techniques including all four band members recording one thing each in the same space - Andrew Fletcher (musician)|Andrew Fletcher bashing a flight case with a pole, producer Flood (producer)|Flood and Dave Gahan clapping, Alan Wilder playing a drum and Martin Gore playing an organ. The sound produced was very embryonic but gave the band a direction as to how the track should sound.
The album has a lot of recorded guitar with the intension of creating the power of a rock guitar, without the playing technique. Guitar parts were processed through devices such as Leslie speaker|Leslie tone cabinets , originally designed for use with an organ.
2006 re-release
In 2006, Songs of Faith and Devotion was re-released with a bonus DVD. It was released as a part of the second wave of re-issues. (Along with A Broken Frame and Some Great Reward ) The first CD was remastered and was released on a CD/SACD hybrid except for in the US where the remastered first disc was pressed to standard CD. The bonus DVD includes a 5.1 surround mix of the original album, the B-Side "My Joy" and the Jazz Mix of "Death's Door" (similar to the original version) plus several other remixes.
Also included was a 36 minute documentary on Songs of Faith and Devotion called Depeche Mode 91-94 (We Were Going To Live Together, Record Together And It Was Going To Be Wonderful) named after a quote from Alan Wilder on the potential of living in their Madrid -area recording studio. It features interviews with Depeche Mode (including Wilder, who would leave the band in 1995) and other important DM figures like Daniel Miller (music producer)|Daniel Miller , Anton Corbijn and Daryl Bamonte . There is also footage from the movie Devotional (video)|Devotional and the music videos. The documentary mainly focuses on the extreme difficulty of recording the album, and the even more frustrating 14-month tour that followed.
It was released on 2 October 2006 in the UK and 3 October 2006 in the US.
The remastered album was released on "deluxe" vinyl 2 March 2007 in Germany and 5 March 2007 internationally.
Track listing
track listing|all_writing= Martin Gore |title1= I Feel You |length1=4:35 |title2= Walking in My Shoes |length2=5:35 |title3= Condemnation (song)|Condemnation |length3=3:20 |title4=Mercy in You|length4=4:17 |title5=Judas|length5=5:14 |title6= In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)|In Your Room |length6=6:26 |title7=Get Right with Me|length7=3:52 |title8=Rush|length8=4:37 |title9=One Caress|length9=3:32 |title10=Higher Love|length10=5:56 track listing|headline=2006 re-release bonus tracks |title11=My Joy|length11=3:57 |title12=Condemnation (Paris Mix)|length12=3:21 |title13=Death's Door (Jazz Mix)|length13=6:38 |title14=In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)|length14=4:50 |title15=I Feel You (Life's Too Short Mix)|length15=8:35 |title16=Walking In My Shoes (Grungy Gonads Mix)|length16=6:24 |title17=My Joy (Slowslide Mix)|length17=5:11 |title18=In Your Room (Apex Mix)|length18=6:43
Martin Gore - keyboards, guitar, organ ("Condemnation"), sampler, backing vocals, lead vocals ("Judas", "One Caress"), songwriting
Alan Wilder - keyboards, drums, piano, bass guitar ("Walking In My Shoes"), sampler, programming, backing vocals
Andrew Fletcher (musician)|Andrew Fletcher - samples, backing vocals ("Condemnation")
Guest musicians
Bazil Meade, Hildia Campbell and Samantha Smith - backing vocals ("Get Right With Me")
Stefan Hanningan - uilleann pipes ("Judas")
Will Malone - strings conducting ("One Caress")
Charts and certifications
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Charts
Chart (1993)
Peak position
Australian Albums Chart http:/ / australian-charts.com/ showinterpret.asp? interpret=Depeche+Mode "Discography Depeche Mode". Australian-Charts.com. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
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Austrian Albums Charthttp:/ / austriancharts.at/ showinterpret.asp? interpret=Depeche+Mode "Discographie Depeche Mode". AustrianCharts.at. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
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French Albums Charthttp:/ / www.infodisc.fr/ B-CD_1993.php "Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion chart. Infodisc.fr. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
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German Albums Chart http:/ / www.charts-surfer.de/ musiksearch.php "Suchergebnis". Charts-Surfer.de. Retrieved 16 April 2009. Note: User must define 'neuer suchbegriff' search parameter as "Depeche Mode".
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Netherlands Albums Charthttp:/ / dutchcharts.nl/ showinterpret.asp? interpret=Depeche+Mode "Discografie Depeche Mode". DutchCharts.nl. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
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Norwegian Albums Charthttp:/ / norwegiancharts.com/ showinterpret.asp? interpret=Depeche+Mode "Discography Depeche Mode". NorwegianCharts.com. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
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Swedish Albums Charthttp:/ / swedishcharts.com/ showinterpret.asp? interpret=Depeche+Mode "Discography Depeche Mode". SwedishCharts.com. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
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UK Albums Chart http:/ / www.chartstats.com/ artistinfo.php? id=375 "Chart Stats: Depeche Mode". ChartStats.com. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
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Billboard 200 Allmusic
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Certifications
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References
Miller, Jonathan. Stripped: The True Story of Depeche Mode . Omnibus Press, 2004. ISBN 1-84449-415-2
Notes
reflist Depeche Mode Category:1993 albums Category:Albums released in Super Audio Category:Albums produced by Flood Category:Depeche Mode albums Category:Mute Records albums Category:Sire Records albums Category:Reprise Records albums
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