Description: "Before we started recording this album, I had a feeling that we have unfinished business" - says Dave Gahan of their 11 studio album, "Playing The Angel". Therefore, again assembled the most advanced and best electronic band in the world that, according to the singer, "to make the best record we can." They just can not resist the disease. Parting with producer Tim Simenon and Mark Bell, Depeche Mode invited to work on a new album of Ben Hillier, the famous work of Doves and Blur ... As a result, DM sounded more prickly and tough. Miracle in the feathers - poluangel, poludemon - depicted on the cover plate. Almost all the songs one way or another referred to the angels, the very same expression of Playing the Angel, which gave the name of the album, is found in the last song The Darkest Star. "Playing the Angel" is surprisingly fresh and bright album, which for more than 25 years has sold over 50 million records worldwide and has a terrific asset in the 38 hit singles and the Kingdom, nothing more and nothing less than 13 Top 10 albums. And they still sound like do not already passed the half way share of the third decade. Deluxe edition of the album includes a SACD + DVD with videos, photo gallery, and sign tracks in the format 5.1 Genre - Pop / Rock Styles - Alternative / Indie Rock - Alternative Pop / Rock - Dance-Rock - Alternative Dance Tracklist: CD 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 DVD 1. Playing the Angel in 5.1 and Stereo (DTS 5.1 (24bit) / Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround (24bit) / PCM Stereo (24bit). 2. Making the Angel (PCM Stereo). 3. Precious (Video) (PCM Stereo). 4. Clean (Bare) (PCM Stereo). 5. Photo Gallery. Candid Studio Photos taken by Ben Hillier at the Santa Barbara / New York / London Recording Sessions.