Delta Machine

For information on this album's singles, see the Singles section.
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This article is about the album. To view a list of its songs and B-sides, see Delta Machine songs.

Delta Machine
Album	Delta Machine
By	Depeche Mode
Working title	Art X''
Catalogue number	88765460632 S1 88765460622 88765460632 No Cat #
Release date	22 March 2013
Recorded	March–October 2012
Recorded at	Sound Design (Santa Barbara) Jungle City (New York)
Produced by	Ben Hillier
Engineered by	Ferg Peterkin
Number of tracks	13

Delta Machine is the thirteenth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 22 March 2013 by Columbia and Mute Records. It was supported by the Delta Machine tour.

Demos of thirteen songs as well as two "rough" mixes are available from this album.

See more: Delta Machine demos

Track list

1. Welcome To My World
2. Angel
3. Heaven
4. Secret To The End
5. My Little Universe
6. Slow
7. Broken
8. The Child Inside
9. Soft Touch / Raw Nerve
10. Should Be Higher
11. Alone
12. Soothe My Soul
13. Goodbye

For a full list of songs, singles, and B-sides produced for this album, see the list of Delta Machine songs.

Singles

1. Heaven – 31 January 2013
2. Soothe My Soul – 6 May 2013
3. Should Be Higher – 11 October 2013

Statistics

Album BPM range by song
Welcome To My World 140
Angel 114
Heaven 100
Secret To The End 95
My Little Universe 173
Slow 94
Broken 120
The Child Inside 80
Soft Touch / Raw Nerve 125
Should Be Higher 99
Alone 124
Soothe My Soul 124
Goodbye 77
Average: 112.69
BPM values are plotted from 1 to 184 BPM. In cases where a song features a change in tempo, the tempo at which the majority of the song plays takes precedence. Unless noted otherwise, BPMs are estimated values determined by Spotify's Audio Analysis algorithm and as such are not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.

Album live plays by song
Welcome To My World 107
Angel 111
Heaven 123
Secret To The End 33
My Little Universe 0
Slow 27
Broken 0
The Child Inside 35
Soft Touch / Raw Nerve 7
Should Be Higher 98
Alone 0
Soothe My Soul 65
Goodbye 35
Average: 49.31
Song live play values are plotted from zero to 1,100. All values are determined by summing the number of times each song has been performed live by Depeche Mode per tour. These totals do not reflect live plays performed by individual members of Depeche Mode as part of solo projects, solo tours, or known one-off performances.

Trivia

• The total number of live song plays from Delta Machine is 641. This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.

References

Depeche Mode studio albums 1981-1982: Speak & Spell • A Broken Frame 1983-1986: Construction Time Again • Some Great Reward • Black Celebration 1987-1993: Music For The Masses • Violator • Songs Of Faith And Devotion 1997-2001: Ultra • Exciter 2005-2013: Playing The Angel • Sounds Of The Universe • Delta Machine 2017-2023: Spirit • Memento Mori Recoil studio albums 1986-1988: 1 + 2 • Hydrology 1992-2000: Bloodline • Unsound Methods • Liquid 2007: SubHuman Dave Gahan studio albums 2003-2007: Paper Monsters • Hourglass 2012-2015: The Light The Dead See • Angels & Ghosts 2021: Imposter Martin Gore solo albums and extended plays 1989-2003: Counterfeit e.p. • Counterfeit² 2012-2015: Ssss • MG 2021: The Third Chimpanzee Official releases Studio albums • Live albums • Compilation albums • Video albums • Singles