![]() ![]() Later releases of the album on vinyl (2007) and compact disc (2009) feature slightly different takes of the shot. Griffin has displayed on his website a gallery of alternative images from the same shoot. ![]() Griffin cited as inspirations the socialist realism of Soviet Russia, especially the work of Kazimir Malevich, and German Romanticism. It was taken by Brian Griffin (who had previously taken the cover photograph for Speak & Spell and press photos for the band) using a mixture of natural and artificial lighting. It depicts a woman cutting grain in an East Anglian field, near Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Cover image ĭespite being a photograph, the cover artwork is intended to resemble a painting. musically A Broken Frame was a mish-mash". ![]() In 1990, while promoting their album Violator, songwriter Martin Gore lamented parts of the album, saying, "I regret all that sickly boy-next-door stuff of the early days. He added: "More complex arrangements and juxtaposed sounds, such as the sparkle of breaking glass in ' Leave in Silence', help give this underrated album even more of an intriguing, unexpected edge." for more melancholy reflections about love gone wrong". In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett described A Broken Frame as "a notably more ambitious effort than the pure pop/ disco of the band's debut", with much of the album "forsaking earlier sprightliness. "DH" said that the album "falls together well and shows we can expect a lot more from the clean cut quartet", adding "t times it reaches high points far exceeding their first album." The comments of Noise! magazine's "DH" (most likely Noise! contributor Dave Henderson) showed greater prescience. At the same time, Sutherland acknowledged that the group's increasing complexity "sounds less the result of exterior persuasion than an understandable, natural development", although he finally concluded that Depeche Mode remain (in contrast to Clarke's new group Yazoo) "essentially vacuous". Reviewer Steve Sutherland considered the songs "daft aspirations to art", the album's musical and thematic "larcenies" sounding like "puerile infatuations papering over anonymity". In contrast, Melody Maker wrote that, although "ambitious and bold", " A Broken Frame – as its name suggests – marks the end of a beautiful dream", a comment on the departure of main songwriter Clarke. Smash Hits wrote that A Broken Frame, in contrast to the group's early post-Clarke singles showed "a lack of purpose", "makes a virtue of their tinkly-bonk whimsy". ![]() His first musical contribution would come with the single Get the Balance Right! Professional ratings Review scores Although a member, Alan Wilder (centre-right) did not appear on the album. It's when people really started believing in the future of the band." Critical reception and legacy Depeche Mode in 1982. He also said that the instrumental track "Nothing to Fear" gained its title from Martin, who was "reading some weird book during the making of the record, a book of prophecies or something and he looked up his birthdate and it said, 'Nothing to fear.' So that actually ended up being a track title, and it made him very optimistic about the future." Miller also believes that the album "was a transitional record and while it's not their best record, it's hugely important in terms of how it was made and how it gave everybody confidence. They were making pop records, but they, especially Martin, were into experimental music and that started to feed into tracks like 'Monument'." However, Miller also believed that "some of the more experimental elements of the band came out in A Broken Frame, which I enjoyed. It was more like, 'Here's the words, here's the melody. Daniel Miller recalled that the process of production was quite different from the previous album, stating, "It was almost like a blank sheet of paper, the songs were recorded in a different way because Vince had a very specific idea of what the song was going to end up sounding like, and Martin didn't really have that. The album is a transition from the lighter and optimistic sound of Speak & Spell and the more heavy and darker sound that formed on their later albums. The album reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart and was promoted by the singles " See You", " The Meaning of Love" and " Leave in Silence". Alan Wilder was part of a second band tour in the United Kingdom prior to the release of A Broken Frame, but had not officially joined yet and does not appear on the album. The album was written entirely by Martin Gore and was recorded as a trio after the departure of Vince Clarke, who had left and formed Yazoo with singer Alison Moyet. A Broken Frame is the second studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 27 September 1982 by Mute Records. ![]()
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