Construction Time Again

by Depeche Mode

Construction Time Again cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 22 August 1983
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:19:26
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 13 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

With the crucial addition of Alan Wilder, Depeche Mode significantly expanded their sonic palette by integrating early digital sampling and clanking, industrial-style percussion. 'Construction Time Again' marks a sharp thematic pivot, delivering highly political, socially conscious lyricism regarding capitalism and environmentalism over bright, mechanical synth-pop melodies. It is a highly rhythmic, futuristic, and essential transitional record for the band.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, conscious, political, synth, distorted

Tracklist

  1. Love, In Itself (4:29)
  2. More Than a Party (4:45)
  3. Pipeline (5:54)
  4. Everything Counts (4:21)
  5. Two Minute Warning (4:13)
  6. Shame (3:51)
  7. The Landscape Is Changing (4:48)
  8. Told You So (4:27)
  9. And Then... (4:39)
  10. Everything Counts (Reprise) (0:59)
  11. Get the Balance Right! (3:14)
  12. The Great Outdoors! (5:03)
  13. Work Hard (4:22)
  14. Fools (4:15)
  15. Get the Balance Right! - Combination Mix (7:58)
  16. Everything Counts - In Larger Amounts (7:20)
  17. Love In Itself.4 - The Lounge Version (4:39)

Credits

  • Depeche Mode - primary artist, producer
  • Martyn Atkins - design
  • Gareth Jones - engineer [tonmeister]
  • Ian Wright - illustration
  • Tim Young - lacquer cut by
  • Alan Wilder - performer [depeche mode], songwriter
  • Andrew Fletcher - performer [depeche mode]
  • Dave Gahan - performer [depeche mode]
  • Martin Gore - performer [depeche mode], songwriter
  • Brian Griffin - photography by [cover photography]
  • Daniel Miller - producer
  • Corinne Simcock - engineer [assistant engineer]

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