![]() It’s been 40 years since Depeche Mode formed. They’re not the hummable, soft-spoken electro-pop songs of his band instead, they’re an extension of his most recent solo release, 2015’s MG, which also displayed a less commercially accessible side of the musician. The recordings are gritty and stark, fuzzy yet cutting. Out Friday, the Depeche Mode musician and singer’s new solo EP, The Third Chimpanzee, collects five instrumental compositions named for primates - mandrills, capuchins, and vervets among them - all bound by the primitive spirit he evoked with his resynthesized vocals. The track reminded me a bit of the sound of howling.” So he titled the composition “Howler” and decided that monkey business suits him well. I went down to Costa Rica a bit during normal times, and we often hear the howler down there. “It just reminded me of a different kind of primate. ![]() ![]() “It wasn’t quite human anymore,” he tells Rolling Stone on a mid-December call from his home in sunny Santa Barbara, California. ![]() ![]() The original vocal was “an almost yelling blues kind of line,” he says, but it had started to seem “human -like.” Martin Gore was recently tweaking his voice electronically - “resynthesizing it,” to use his words - for an avant-garde piece when he realized that it now sounded animalistic. ![]()
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