Construction Time Again

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Construction Time Again is Depeche Mode's third studio album and was released on 22 August 1983 on Mute Records. Alan Wilder took part as a band member for the first time and wrote two songs. For the first time the band did not record at Blackwing Studios but at The Garden, John Foxx's studio in London, with Gareth Jones as engineer. Mixing took place at Hansa Studios in West Berlin.

Martin Gore wrote the songs quickly, after travels on which the poverty in Thailand had shocked the band. Together with Daniel Miller the group switched from analogue synthesizers to sampling. They recorded found sounds: metal they struck with sledgehammers, kitchen utensils and objects from building sites. This gave the pop music an industrial edge, partly because of Gore's interest in Einstürzende Neubauten. The album title comes from a line in the song Pipeline.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Love In Itself4:29Apple Music ↗
2. 2More Than a Party4:45Apple Music ↗
3. 3Pipeline5:55Apple Music ↗
4. 4Everything Counts4:21Apple Music ↗
5. 5Two Minute Warning4:14Apple Music ↗
6. 6Shame3:52Apple Music ↗
7. 7The Landscape Is Changing4:49Apple Music ↗
8. 8Told You So4:27Apple Music ↗
9. 9And Then...4:40Apple Music ↗
10. 10Everything Counts (Reprise)0:00Apple Music ↗

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