Depeche Mode will include four previously unreleased tracks from their most recent album, Memento Mori, on a new live album set to arrive Dec. 5.
Memento Mori: Mexico City primarily features performances from Depeche Mode’s three-night run at Mexico City’s Foro Sol Stadium in 2023. But the four unreleased tracks — “In the End,” “Survive,” “Life 2.0,” and “Give Yourself to Me” — all come from the studio sessions for Memento Mori, which was recorded back in 2022.
The first of these four songs, “In the End,” will be released to streaming services on Oct. 24. Some fans were able to hear it early, though, when “In the End” played during the end credits of Depeche Mode: M, a new film that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival back in June.
Depeche Mode: M was directed by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Frias and it will get a limited theatrical release starting Oct. 28. M is not a concert film in the strict sense, with Frias pairing performances from Depeche Mode’s Memento Mori tour with an exploration of the role mortality plays in Mexican culture. The film features narration from actor Daniel Giménez Cacho, as well as interviews with fans, artists, and other cultural commentators.
Death was, of course, also a potent subject for Depeche Mode, as the title, Mento Mori, suggests. The album was recorded in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, but also the unexpected death of keyboardist and founding member, Andy Fletcher, in February 2022.
Following its theatrical release, Depeche Mode: M will get a physical release on Dec. 5. A box set will contain a DVD/Blu-Ray of M, as well as a second disc with the more traditional concert film, Memento Mori: Mexico City, which Frias also directed. A double-disc live album for Memento Mori: Mexico City will also be included in the box set, though the LP will have its own release on CD and vinyl, too.
From Rolling Stone US
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