Speak And Spell
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Speak And Spell
Speak & Spell is the debut studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released on 5 October 1981 by Mute Records. - Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
These songs are building-block simple, bleepy and discoid, and the band sounds as gawky and adolescent as Dave Gahan looked.
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Sputnikmusic
Vince was soon to leave, and the band would soon carve out their own identity, but Speak And Spell remains a album apart from the rest.
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AllMusic
David Gahan undersings about half the album, and Martin Gore's two numbers lack the distinctiveness of his later work, but Speak & Spell remains an undiluted joy.
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Rolling Stone
Too often the synthesizers lock into dead-end grooves, and the group’s boyish caroling is anonymous at best.
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Albumism
But while Speak & Spell did not augur the stadium tours or multi-platinum albums that would largely define the band’s enduring legacy, it nevertheless leaves tiny breadcrumbs behind it, just little pieces of the Depeche Mode to come.
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Classic Pop Magazine
The addiction, excesses and dark experiences that were almost to kill the band were years down the line. For now, prim, pert and prettily packaged, here are their original songs of innocence.
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Rate Your Music
Yup, it’s one of those LP’s, an early release by an outfit later known (and revered) for a wholly other aesthetic, thus leaving it in limbo, a kind of prefix to the main gestalt of the band’s later catalogue.
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Power of Pop
There are numerous landmarks achieved with this, the debut album of synth-pop combo, Depeche Mode.
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Doug's Reviews
With the abrupt departure of Vince Clarke after Speak & Spell, Martin Gore would take over the songwriting duties and Depeche Mode would become the band that conquered stadiums with the themes of disaffected youth. Still, it’s a really great album…except for “What’s Your Name.”
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