Spirit

For information on this album's singles, see the Singles section.
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Spirit
Album	Spirit
By	Depeche Mode
Catalogue number	88985411651 88985411682 88985411692
Release date	17 March 2017
Recorded	April – August 2016
Recorded at	Sound Design (Santa Barbara) Jungle City (New York)
Produced by	James Ford
Engineered by	Jimmy Robertson
Number of tracks	12

Spirit is the fourteenth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released on 17 March 2017 by Columbia and Mute Records. It was supported by the Global Spirit tour.

Track list

1. Going Backwards
2. Where's The Revolution
3. The Worst Crime
4. Scum
5. You Move
6. Cover Me
7. Eternal
8. Poison Heart
9. So Much Love
10. Poorman
11. No More (This Is The Last Time)
12. Fail

For a full list of songs and singles produced for this album, see the list of Spirit songs.

Singles

1. Where's The Revolution – 3 February 2017
2. Going Backwards – 23 June 2017
3. Cover Me – 6 October 2017

Statistics

Album BPM range by song
Going Backwards 97
Where's The Revolution 105
The Worst Crime 132
Scum 95
You Move 92
Cover Me 98
Eternal 128
Poison Heart 90
So Much Love 140
Poorman 107
No More (This Is The Last Time) 160
Fail 152
Average: 116.33
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
Going Backwards 136
Where's The Revolution 124
The Worst Crime 0
Scum 1
You Move 0
Cover Me 139
Eternal 0
Poison Heart 61
So Much Love 64
Poorman 0
No More (This Is The Last Time) 0
Fail 1
Average: 43.83
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 Spirit is 526. This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.

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