Songs Of Faith And Devotion  by Depeche Mode

We are now in 1993, and Depeche Mode will not remain indifferent to the wave of alternative rock and grunge that is spreading month by month. Their eighth studio album, Songs Of Faith And Devotion, is the closest they have come to rock. Anyone who listens to the first single from the album, I Feel You, will understand the musical change from the very first moments. The band's rock transformation was largely due to the fact that Martin Gore had spent a lot of time in Los Angeles after the Violator tour, hanging out with Jane's Addiction or Soundgarden.

The band collaborates for the second consecutive time with producer Flood, who comes up with the idea of renting a villa somewhere in Madrid, isolating themselves there, and starting to experiment all together with new compositions. He proposed something similar to U2, and that's how Achtung Baby was created two years earlier. However, it did not work here, as the four band members, at a certain point, could not communicate and irritated each other. The situation seemed to become more difficult as they felt they had to compete with the enormous success of their previous album.

Despite all these difficulties, Songs Of Faith And Devotion became their first album to reach number 1 in both England and the United States. Today, sales are estimated at over 4,000,000.