Depeche Mode unveiled this anxious and angsty track over the weekend at Germany's Echo Awards, and their internet-press savvy is on display with its official video: released within the week for web embedding, directed by the indie-band friendly string-puller Patrick Daughters. The clip is fairly evil and memorable -- a poor schlub finds himself as the living embodiment of "wrong place at the wrong time" (masked and bound in a Christine car moving in reverse, gradually making his predicament increasingly dire) -- and Gahan's guys only needed to turn up for a momentary reaction shot as said possessed car rolls by on its way to vehicular homicide. Executed like an outfit with real experience, this one.
Sounds Of The Universe is out 4/17 in Germay, 4/20 internationally, and 4/21 in the US via Mute/EMI. Tour's lined up, venues TBA:
07/24 - Toronto
07/25 - Montreal
07/28 - Washington, DC
07/31 - Boston
08/01 - Atlantic City
08/03 - New York
08/10 - Seattle
08/12 - San Francisco
08/14 - San Diego
08/16 - Los Angeles
08/17 - Los Angeles
08/20 - Santa Barbara
08/22 - Las Vegas
08/23 - Phoenix
08/25 - Salt Lake City
08/27 - Denver
08/29 - Dallas
08/30 - Houston
09/01 - Atlanta
09/04 - Tampa
09/05 - Ft. Lauderdale
