Playing The Angel

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For information on this album's singles, see the Singles section.
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Playing The Angel
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Album Playing The Angel
By Depeche Mode
Catalogue number CDStumm260
No Cat #
No Cat #
Stumm260
Release date 17 October 2005
Recorded January–July 2005
Recorded at Sound Design (Santa Barbara)
Stratosphere Sound (New York City)
Whitfield Street (London)
Produced by Ben Hillier
Engineered by Richard Morris
Number of tracks 12

Playing The Angel is the eleventh studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2005 by Mute Records and was supported by the Touring The Angel tour.

Mastering

The Compact Disc release of Playing The Angel is often described as a victim of the loudness war, which is a trend of increasing audio levels in recorded music.[1][2]

See more: Playing The Angel mastering analysis

Track list

  1. A Pain That I'm Used To
  2. John The Revelator
  3. Suffer Well
  4. The Sinner In Me
  5. Precious
  6. Macro
  7. I Want It All
  8. Nothing's Impossible
  9. Introspectre
  10. Damaged People
  11. Lilian
  12. The Darkest Star

For a full list of songs, singles, and B-sides produced for this album, see the list of Playing The Angel songs.

Singles

  1. Precious3 October 2005
  2. A Pain That I'm Used To9 December 2005
  3. Suffer Well20 March 2006
  4. John The Revelator / Lilian4 June 2006

Statistics

Album BPM range by song
108
130
131
169
104
91
76
110
74
144
130
164

Average:
119.25
  • 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
482
225
124
82
518
26
78
31
0
51
0
0

Average:
134.75
  • 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 Playing The Angel is 1617. This figure is found by summing the number of individual performances for each album track.


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