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Depeche Mode<\/a> have begun teasing the approaching launch of latest music \u2013 seemingly the primary single from their upcoming fifteenth album, \u2018Memento Mori\u2019 \u2013 with a cryptic countdown printed on their web site.<\/p>\n Plugged with a put up on their official Instagram account (which, on the time of writing, is the solely<\/i> put up they’ve reside on the web page), the ominous countdown \u2013 which you’ll view right here<\/a> \u2013 began at seven days, and is ticking down, second by second, till 10pm BST subsequent Saturday (February 4).\u00a0<\/p>\n So reads a caption shared with the Instagram put up: \u201cTime is fleeting, see what it brings.\u201d<\/p>\n Clicking by way of to the band\u2019s web site, the precise countdown is accompanied by a kind asking followers to fill out their identify and residential tackle. If you do, you\u2019ll be met a message thanking you for \u201csigning up\u201d, in addition to hyperlinks to pre-save music on streaming platforms. Depeche Mode themselves haven’t but confirmed whether or not this will likely be a single, \u2018Memento Mori\u2019 itself, or one thing else fully.<\/p>\n The aforementioned album is due out on March 17 by way of Columbia and Mute. It would be the band\u2019s first album in six years, following up on 2017\u2019s \u2018Spirit\u2019, in addition to the primary launch to comply with the loss of life of founding member Andy Fletcher<\/a>; the keyboardist died final May on the age of 60.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018Memento Mori\u2019 was announced final October alongside particulars of a sprawling world tour<\/a>. Its title makes a direct reference to the lack of Fletcher \u2013 a \u201cmemento mori\u201d is an object saved as a reminder of the inevitability of loss of life (akin to a cranium) \u2013 nonetheless based on keyboardist\/guitarist\/songwriter Martin Gore<\/a>, it was chosen earlier than his late bandmate\u2019s passing.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt sounds very morbid, but I think you can look at it very positively as well,\u201d Gore stated in a press release, \u201cin that [you should] live each day to the max. I think that\u2019s how we like to interpret it too\u2026 After Fletch\u2019s passing, we decided to continue as we\u2019re sure this is what he would have wanted, and that has really given the project an extra level of meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n Upon the album\u2019s announcement, frontman Dave Gahan opened up about it in an interview with NME<\/a>, revealing that he was initially hesitant about making a fifteenth Depeche Mode document: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t something I dived into, I have got to say. At first I put up quite a bit of resistance. I would say, \u2018I don\u2019t know if I still want to do this\u2019; all the usual kind of stuff, but there was a bit more of that than usual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n