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A Broken Frame

| Depeche Mode

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A Broken Frame is the second studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released on 27 September 1982 by Mute Records. - Wikipedia

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AllMusic

Gore's lyrics sometimes veer on the facile, but David Gahan's singing comes more clearly to the fore throughout -- things aren't all there yet, but they were definitely starting to get close.

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Sputnikmusic

It may be hated by many and is certainly not one of the bands best albums, but it is still a good album that deserves much more attention.

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Doug's Reviews

The album is a mishmash of some new songs and songs Gore wrote as a teenager. What listeners ended up with was a strange bridge album between Depeche Mode’s pop past and their darker, more mature future.

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Classic Pop Magazine

The Gore-helmed A Broken Frame was a patchy, tentative document but its singles signposted the way forward. See You and The Meaning Of Love were bright-as-a button pop baubles, but it was the brooding, elegiac Leave In Silence that hinted at the portentous Gothic electro-monsters that Depeche Mode were to become.

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