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1982 studio album by Depeche Mode

A Broken Frame
Studio album by Depeche Manner
Released	27 September 1982 (1982-09-27)
Recorded	December 1981 – July 1982
Studio	Blackwing (London)
Genre	Synth-pop
Length	40:52
Characterization	Mute
Producer	Daniel Miller Depeche Way
Depeche Mode chronology
Speak & Spell (1981) A Broken Frame (1982) Structure Time Once again (1983)
Singles from A Cleaved Frame
"See You" Released: 29 January 1982 "The Meaning of Love" Released: 26 Apr 1982 "Get out in Silence" Released: sixteen August 1982

A Cleaved Frame is the second studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 27 September 1982 by Mute Records. The album was written entirely by Martin Gore and was recorded after the divergence of Vince Clarke, who had left to form Yazoo with singer Alison Moyet. Alan Wilder was role of a 2nd band tour in the Great britain prior to the release of A Broken Frame, but had not officially joined even so and does non announced on the album.

Critical reception and legacy [edit]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[one]
The Austin Relate	[2]
The Philadelphia Inquirer	[iii]
PopMatters	6/10[4]
Q	[v]
Record Mirror	[half dozen]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[seven]
Smash Hits	8/10[8]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	iv/10[9]
Uncut	[10]

Writing in Boom Hits, Peter Silverton observed that A Broken Frame, in dissimilarity to the group's early post-Clarke singles which he idea showed "a lack of purpose", "makes a virtue of their tinkly-bonk whimsy".^[8] In contrast, Melody Maker wrote that, although "ambitious and bold", "A Broken Frame – as its proper noun suggests – marks the end of a beautiful dream", a comment on the departure of main songwriter Clarke. Reviewer Steve Sutherland considered the songs "daft aspirations to art", the album'due south musical and thematic "larcenies" sounding like "puerile infatuations papering over anonymity". At the same fourth dimension, Sutherland best-selling that the grouping'due south increasing complexity "sounds less the outcome of exterior persuasion than an understandable, natural development", although he finally concluded that Depeche Mode remain (in contrast to Clarke's new group Yazoo) "essentially vacuous".^[11]

The comments of Dissonance! magazine's "DH" (almost probable Racket! contributor Dave Henderson) showed greater prescience. "DH" said that the album "falls together well and shows nosotros tin can expect a lot more than from the clean cut quartet", adding "[a]t times it reaches high points far exceeding their kickoff album."^[12]

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett described A Broken Frame as "a notably more ambitious try than the pure pop/disco of the band'south debut", with much of the anthology "forsaking earlier sprightliness... for more melancholy reflections about love gone wrong". He added: "More complex arrangements and juxtaposed sounds, such as the sparkle of breaking drinking glass in 'Leave in Silence', aid give this underrated anthology fifty-fifty more than of an intriguing, unexpected edge."^[1]

In 1990, while promoting their anthology Violator, songwriter Martin Gore lamented parts of the anthology, maxim, "I regret all that sickly male child-next-door stuff of the early on days... musically A Cleaved Frame was a mish-brew".^[thirteen]

Cover paradigm [edit]

Despite beingness a photograph, the cover artwork is intended to resemble a painting. Information technology depicts a woman cutting grain in an East Anglian field, near Duxford in Cambridgeshire. It was taken by Brian Griffin (who had previously taken the cover photo for Speak & Spell and press photos for the band) using a mixture of natural and artificial lighting. Griffin cited as inspirations the socialist realism of Soviet Russia, especially the work of Kazimir Malevich, and German Romanticism.^{[14] [15]} Griffin has displayed on his website a gallery of alternative images from the same shoot.^[sixteen] Afterward releases of the anthology on vinyl (2007) and compact disc (2009) feature slightly dissimilar takes of the shot. It was likewise featured on the cover of Life 's 1990 edition of "World'due south Best Photographs 1980–1990".^[17]

Tour [edit]

The tour began in October 1982 in Chippenham, England. The jaunt eventually reached 12 countries, which included the grouping's first shows in Asia, before wrapping upward with a one-off festival appearance in Schüttorf, Westward Germany, in May 1983. A tour in back up of the human activity'due south subsequent studio release, Construction Time Again, followed in September.

Selected tracks from the 25 October 1982 show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London accept been published on the "Go the Rest Right!", "Everything Counts" and "Love, in Itself" limited-edition 12-inch singles.

Track listing [edit]

All tracks are written by Martin Gore. All lead vocals past Dave Gahan, except where noted.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Leave in Silence"	four:51
2.	"My Secret Garden"	4:46
three.	"Monument"	3:15
4.	"Naught to Fear"	4:xviii
five.	"Run across You lot"	4:34

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
6.	"Satellite"		4:44
7.	"The Meaning of Love"	Gahan and Gore	3:06
eight.	"A Photograph of Yous"		iii:04
9.	"Shouldn't Accept Done That"	Gahan and Gore	three:12
10.	"The Dominicus & the Rainfall"		v:02
Full length:			40:52

North American edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Leave in Silence"	half-dozen:28
2.	"My Secret Garden"	4:46
3.	"Monument"	3:15
4.	"Nothing to Fright"	four:xviii
v.	"See Y'all"	4:34
six.	"Satellite"	four:44
7.	"The Meaning of Dear"	three:06
viii.	"Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden"	four:20
9.	"A Photograph of You"	three:04
10.	"Shouldn't Have Done That"	3:12
11.	"The Dominicus & the Rainfall"	five:02
Full length:		46:49

• Some original US CD copies of the album tacked the intro of "The Sunday & the Rainfall" onto the end of "Shouldn't Have Washed That", making the duration of "The Sun & the Rainfall" iv:54.
• Dave Gahan sings atomic number 82 vocals on all songs except "Shouldn't Accept Done That" which is a duet with Gore. "Nothing to Fearfulness" and "Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden" are instrumental.

2006 Collectors Edition (CD + DVD) [edit]

• Disc ane is a hybrid SACD/CD with a multi-aqueduct SACD layer. The rails listing is identical to the 1982 Uk release, except "Satellite" which is iv:43 long and contains a slight edit, or error, at the beginning of the track.
• Disc two is a DVD which includes A Cleaved Frame in DTS 5.ane, Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM Stereo plus bonus material.

Bonus tracks (in DTS 5.ane, Dolby Digital 5.1, PCM Stereo)

No.	Championship	Length
eleven.	"My Secret Garden" (alive at the Hammersmith Odeon, 25 Oct 1982)	7:28
12.	"Run into You" (alive at the Hammersmith Odeon, 25 Oct 1982)	4:11
13.	"Satellite" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 25 Oct 1982)	four:28
14.	"Nothing to Fear" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 25 October 1982)	4:28
15.	"The Meaning of Love" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 25 October 1982)	3:xiv
16.	"A Photograph of You" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 25 Oct 1982)	3:21

Bonus tracks (in PCM Stereo)

No.	Title	Length
17.	"Now, This Is Fun"	iii:27
xviii.	"Oberkorn (It'south a Small Town)"	four:07
xix.	"Extract From: My Underground Garden"	3:14

Additional material

1. "Depeche Style 1982 (The Commencement of Their So-Called Dark Phase)" (27-minute video)

Personnel [edit]

Credits for adapted from the liner notes of A Broken Frame.^[18]

Depeche Mode [edit]

• David Gahan
• Martin Gore
• Andrew Fletcher

Technical [edit]

• Daniel Miller – product
• Depeche Mode – production
• John Fryer – engineering
• Eric Radcliffe – technology

Artwork [edit]

• Brian Griffin – photography
• Martyn Atkins – blueprint
• Ching Ching Lee – calligraphy

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Marsheaux cover version [edit]

A Broken Frame
Studio album past Marsheaux
Released	xviii January 2015 (2015-01-eighteen)
Length	45:00
Label	Undo
Marsheaux chronology
Inhale (2013) A Broken Frame (2015) Ath.Lon (2016)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Release Magazine	[28]

In 2015, Greek synth-pop duo Marsheaux released a complete embrace version of A Broken Frame on Undo Records. While the reviewer for Release Magazine wrote that this version was not "anything essential" merely well done, other reviews were more detailed.^[28] The Electricity Gild found influences of And One in the cover of "The Dominicus & the Rainfall" and concluded that Marsheaux had "used unconventional sounds and vocals to brand this record their own".^[29] Reviews from Germany noted that Marsheaux had elaborated on the assets and downsides of the original release. According to Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the kitschy sides of the early Depeche Mode album were deliberately uncovered in tracks similar "The Meaning of Love", while the Sonic Seducer lauded Marsheaux's darker and slower interpretation of this vocal.^{[30] [31]}

References [edit]

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2. ^ Grey, Christopher (xv December 2006). "Depeche Fashion: Reissues". The Austin Relate . Retrieved fourteen December 2020.
3. ^ Lloyd, Jack (14 Jan 1983). "Albums". The Philadelphia Inquirer. ISSN 0885-6613.
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5. ^ Sutcliffe, Phil (March 1997). "Personal? Jesus!". Q. No. 126. London. p. 69. ISSN 0955-4955.
6. ^ Reid, Jim (25 September 1982). "Frozen frame". Record Mirror. London. p. 23. ISSN 0144-5804.
7. ^ Sheffield, Rob (2004). "Depeche Manner". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 229–30. ISBN0-7432-0169-8.
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10. ^ Dalton, Stephen (May 2001). "Enjoy the Silence: twenty Years of Depeche Style Albums". Uncut. No. 48. London. p. 66. ISSN 1368-0722.
11. ^ Sutherland, Steve (25 September 1982). "Depeche Style: A Broken Frame". Melody Maker. London. ISSN 0025-9012.
12. ^ DH (14–27 October 1982). "Depeche Mode: A Broken Frame". Noise!.
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15. ^ Ming Lai, Chi (vii May 2014). "TEC003 Preview: A Short Conversation with Brian Griffin". Electricity Gild. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
16. ^ Griffin, Brian. "Anthology covers: Depeche Mode". Brian Griffin Photography . Retrieved 13 Dec 2015.
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31. ^ Karstedt, Jörn. "Marsheaux 'A Broken Frame'". Sonic Seducer . Retrieved 3 May 2022.

External links [edit]

• Album information from the official Depeche Mode website
• Official remaster info

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Broken_Frame

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