Songs Of Faith And Devotion

Songs Of Faith And Devotion
Album Artist Depeche Mode Catalogue no. Stumm 106 Formats LP, CD Produced by Depeche Mode Flood Release date March 22, 1993 Recorded at Madrid, Spain Chateau du Pape (Hamburg, Germany) Engineered by Steve Lyon Paul Kendall Chris Dickie

"There's been a big change in each individual member of the group which I couldn't sum up in a few sentences but particularly over the last few years, I think. Since we've got to our thirties, certain aspects of our lives have become much more important to us. We had a significant break away from each other before we started making this record, and when we came back together you could really see the changes in us."
- Alan Wilder, BONG 23

Songs Of Faith And Devotion is the eighth studio album by Depeche Mode and the final album produced with Alan Wilder as a member of Depeche Mode. The album was released in the United Kingdom on March 22, 1993 by Mute Records. It was supported by the Devotional and Exotic tours.

Notes

"I'd like to feel that this music will lift people and make them feel better in whatever they do. I'm just trying to push myself further."
- Dave Gahan, BONG 52

Flood describes the comping process employed when structuring performative musical elements into the finished product for BONG magazine, issue 22:

"A lot of times we'd have a click track or some other rhythmic foundation on the computer (sequencer) and then perhaps I'd send Alan into the studio to do real drums. We'd run through the whole song trying out different drum ideas. Out of that, we might take eight bars from one spot and four bars from another, sample it all and loop it. So we might have a whole drum track made of loops. We did the same for bass and even some of the guitars, although other things are full performances all the way through."

Track list

1. I Feel You
2. Walking In My Shoes
3. Condemnation
4. Mercy In You
5. Judas
6. In Your Room
7. Get Right With Me
8. Rush
9. One Caress
10. Higher Love

For a full list of songs, singles, and B-sides produced for this album, see the list of Songs Of Faith And Devotion songs.

Songs by BPM

Album BPM range by song
I Feel You 122
Walking In My Shoes 93
Condemnation 58
Mercy In You 96
Judas 126
In Your Room 98
Get Right With Me 128
Rush 109
One Caress 100
Higher Love 99
Average: 102.9
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.