New Depeche Mode!!!!

My friend Annie, the co-founder and only other member of the San Fernando Valley branch of the Alan Wilder Appreciation Association (actually, it's the only branch), sent an email to advise me that she heard the new Depeche Mode single on KROQ and that it's apparently the second most requested song on the station (the site, though, says that it's number three). Since I've taken to listening to German courses in the car, I was unaware of this development. So, I hit up YouTube, typed in "Depeche Mode new" and came up with this clip from the Echo Awards in Germany.

And so the question remains, what do you think? I dig the bombasticness of it, which is something that you can only do successfully if you're a nearly thirty year old band that has spent the bulk of your career playing arenas. Part of the reason that I have been a hardcore Modie since the tender age of ten (Mom and Dad, I'm still pissed that you wouldn't let me go to the Rose Bowl) is because of the band's knack for mixing up the monsterous jams that scream like a crowd of 100,000 kids in black ("Never Let Me Down") with more intimate songs ("It Doesn't Matter") and combine that with some amazingly strange remixes (the On-U-Sound version of "Master and Servant"). Hope I get to see them at the Hollywood Bowl this August. It would be even better if I finally got to interview the band.

Update: MySpace just debuted the official video for "Wrong."