Black Celebration - 2016 European Mute label 11-track LP Reissue

2016 high quality issue of synth pop quartets 1986 album  - their 5th - slightly more sophisticated and definite dip into darker sounds than their industrial pop album 'Some Great Reward' from 1984... in many ways the album that introduced and defined their present sound and established them as a dominant and mature act within the electronic music scene - in his retrospective 2007 album review, Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield referred to the album as an "instant classic".

'Black Celebration' features the classic entries in the DM canon: "Stripped", "A Question of Lust", "A Question of Time" and "But Not Tonight".

Pressed onto 180 gram vinyl - delivered in a spot laquered gatefold picture cover if not identical then true to to the 1986 issue

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Black Celebration 4:55
2. Fly on the Windscreen ? Final 5:18
3. A Question of Lust 4:20
4. Sometimes 1:53
5. It Doesn't Matter Two 2:50

Side 2:
6. A Question of Time 4:10
7. Stripped 4:16
8. Here Is the House 4:15
9. World Full of Nothing 2:50
10. Dressed in Black 2:32
11. New Dress 3:42

All tracks are written by Martin L. Gore, except where noted.

Programmed at Worldwide International.
Recorded & mixed November, 1985 - January, 1986, at Westside, London & Hansa, Berlin except "Fly on the Windscreen" recorded at Genetic Studios, Wood Cottage - Aldworth Road, Streatley, West Berkshire, U.K. - re-mixed at Hansa, Berlin.
Designed at T&CP Associates

Credits:

Depeche Mode:
Dave Gahan - lead vocals
Martin Gore - keyboards, backing and lead vocals, guitars
Alan Wilder - keyboards, piano, drums, backing vocals
Andy Fletcher - keyboards, backing vocals, bass guitar

Technical Credits:
Daniel Miller, Depeche Mode, Gareth Jones - Production
Peter Schmidt, Richard Sullivan - Assistant Engineer
Dave Allen - Record Engineer (Fly On The Windscreen - Final)
Phil Tennant - Assistant Engineer (Fly On The Windscreen - Final)
Tim Young - Original Mastering

Artwork:
David A. Jones, Mark Higenbottom, Martyn Atkins - Cover Design
Brian Griffin - Photography
Stuart Graham - Assistant Photographer