Exciter (album)
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| Studio album by Depeche Mode | ||
| Released | May 14, 2001 | |
| Recorded | London: RAK and Sarm West; Santa Barbara: Sound Design; New York: Electric Lady and Sony | |
| Genre | Synth pop | |
| Length | 56:40 | |
| Label | UK: Mute / US: Reprise | |
| Producer(s) | Mark Bell | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Depeche Mode chronology | ||
| The Singles 86>98 (1998) |
Exciter (2001) |
Remixes 81 - 04 (2004) |
Exciter is Depeche Mode's tenth full-length album, which was released on May 14, 2001 in the UK and May 15 in the US. It uses more digital music technology compared to their other albums. It was produced by Mark Bell of Björk fame. It also had several songs which became big hits in clubs, like "I Feel Loved". The album also launched the Exciter Tour, which was one of the band's most successful tours.
Exciter went gold in the U.S., selling 426,000 units there as of April 2006.
[edit] Track listing
- "Dream On" – 4:19
- "Shine" – 5:32
- "The Sweetest Condition" – 3:42
- "When The Body Speaks" – 6:01
- "The Dead Of Night" – 4:50
- "Lovetheme" – 2:02
- "Freelove" – 6:10
- "Comatose" – 3:24
- "I Feel Loved" – 4:20
- "Breathe" – 5:17
- "Easy Tiger" – 2:05
- "I Am You" – 5:10
- "Goodnight Lovers" – 3:48
- All songs written by Martin L Gore. Martin sings lead on "Comatose" and "Breathe", the rest are handled by Dave Gahan except for "Lovetheme" and "Easy Tiger" which are instrumental interludes.
[edit] Singles
- "Dream On" (23 April, 2001)
- "I Feel Loved" (30 July, 2001)
- "Freelove" (11 November, 2001) - using a completely redone version of the song only keeping the original voice
- "Goodnight Lovers" (11 February, 2002)
[edit] Personnel
- Depeche Mode is:
- Guest musicians:
- Knox Chandler--cello and string arrangements on "When the Body Speaks"
- Todd C. Reynolds, Joyce Hammann, Natalie Cenovia Cummins, Ralph H. Harris, Leo Grinhauz--string instruments on "When the Body Speaks"
- Airto Moreira--percussion on "Freelove" and "I Feel Loved"
- Christian Eigner--drums on "I am You"
- Produced by Mark Bell
- Engineered by Gareth Jones
- Pre-production and additional production: Gareth Jones and Paul Freegard
- Mixed by Steve Fitzmaurice
- Recorded at:
- London: RAK and Sarm West
- Assisted by Boris Aldridge, Andrew Davies, Andrew Griffiths.
- Santa Barbara: Sound Design
- Assisted by Nick Sevilla, Lisa Butterworth.
- New York: Electric Lady and Sony
- Assisted by Jonathan Adler, Allissa Myhowich, James Chang.
- London: RAK and Sarm West
- Master at The Exchange by Mike Marsh.
- Photography, cover-art and art direction: Anton Corbijn. The cover art is a photograph of an agave plant
- Design: Form.
- Management: Jonathan Kessler for Barton Inc.
- Depeche Mode Office: JD Fanger.
