Depeche Modes new album Memento Mori is deathobsessed even by Depeche standards
SANTA BARBARA, California – Martin Gore, who is now 50 per cent of Depeche Mode, works in a studio on a low hill near Santa Barbara, hidden behind jungle-green foliage and fragrant flowering shrubs. He sat at a console in the centre of the spacious control room, orderly and full of California winter sunshine – a well-lit place to make songs about power, desire, faith and a world spinning ever further off its axis. Gore, 61, wore black clothes and spotless black boots. He looked like an Englishman who had spent decades in California – vibrant tan, straight white teeth.…