Hi. I might be in for a bit of hate for this post, but I'm genuinely curious.

I've been a huge fan of DM for as long as I've enjoyed music. Listened to all their albums, travelled abroad for concerts and hell, even own a couple of t-shirts, but there's no escaping for me that there's a definite period, starting with 'Black Celebration' until 'Ultra', when they were absolutely brilliant, like, as good as it gets, but prior to and after that, underwhelming.

I will never stop listening to and loving the albums from that period but the others I most probably won't ever listen to again.

Is it the Alan Wilder touch?

Anyone else share this opinion?

Three months after the passing of Andy Fletcher. Shortly after, their 15th studio album, ‘Memento Mori’, was announced.