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Listen to Depeche Mode’s eerie new song ‘My Cosmos Is Mine’
It's the second track to be lifted from the band's upcoming album 'Memento Mori'
New single ‘My Cosmos Is Mine’ is an intense offering, the crunching industrial electronics recalling Nine Inch Nails. Dave Gahan has rarely sounded so ominous, his voice detached in zero gravity by the clinical production.
You can hear subtle references to The Normal’s ‘Warm Leatherette’ in the wheezing electronics, but instead of Ballardian perfection it feels rusted, aged.
A plea for independence amid the pressures of fame, ‘My Cosmos Is Mine’ seems to be an act of creative freedom. The lyrics certainly seem to state this, with Dave Gahan singing:
“Don’t toy with my heart
Don’t knock down my shrines
Don’t alter my headlines
My Cosmos Is Mine”
Martin Gore explained to Steffen Ruth: "The last track that I wrote is also the first song on the album, 'My Cosmos Is Mine'. I wrote it shortly after Russia had invaded Ukraine. I thought, "How much should we still bear? What else will be thrown at us?" And my first reaction was to say: I will pull myself back into my little world, leave me alone. The song is about, when dealing with powerlessness, protecting your inner self from the attacks of the world and to, together with your loved ones, prefer to hide somewhere. Which is of course rather shortsighted, because we have to accept the responsibility of our planet's wellbeing, or else no one will be left anymore."
Dave Gahan told Zane Lowe: "That is actually one of my favourites on the album. Not initially when Martin first sent me the demo, it didn't strike me. But quite often, it's the ones that creep up on me later that I most identify with for some reason. And that song was one of those. I remember singing it, I remember going into into Martin's house and in his studio. And I knew we had captured something, the combination of the song, and I'd found a place where I wanted to be with it. And I feel like I found a meaning in the song that I identified with. It's not something I talked to Martin about, and he might have a completely different concept about the lyrical content of the of the song, but I found my place with that song, and I knew it was going to be the something that was gonna be a great introduction to Memento Mori."
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