{"product_id":"construction-time-again-2","title":"Construction Time Again","description":"Depeche Mode: David Gahan (vocals); Martin Gore (keyboards, synthesizer, background vocals); Andrew Fletcher, Alan Wilder (keyboards, synthesizer).\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at The Garden, London, England.\u003cbr\u003eHaving proven his abilities as a pop craftsman on the previous year's A BROKEN FRAME, DM main songwriter Martin Gore gets down to the business of developing a new sonic language for himself and his bandmates on CONSTRUCTION TIME. Earlier in its career, Depeche Mode tried to make its synthesizer-only arrangements seem warm and fuzzy, but here the band embraces the Kraftwerk-pioneered tradition of exploiting the synthesizer's inherent inorganic qualities for their intrinsic beauty.\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to straying further from the poppy approach of previous albums, the group incorporates industrial-oriented sounds as an important part of the arrangements, lending an ominous, machine-like tone to many of the songs. The once-chipper group's growing disenchantment with the outside world begins to flower here as well, most notably on the anti-music biz observations of \"Everything Counts.\"","brand":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41920967082149,"sku":"889853300013","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/0df9e81cbdfd9ce886c072d4c91077a1_294f06e9-0010-419f-84f6-936fc6079524.jpg?v=1781157569","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/en-gb\/products\/construction-time-again-2","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}