Depeche Mode to release Spirit | The 12โณ Singles boxset
By Dan Biggane | July 31, 2024
Depeche Mode are to release Spirit | The 12โณ Singles, the 14th volume in the bandโs 12โณ series.
The collectorโs edition boxset, featuring the first-ever official 12โณ vinyl pressing of The Highline Sessions including previously unreleased performances of So Much Love and Poison Heart, is released on 20 September 2024.
With seven 12โณ vinyl discs, including custom replicas of the original three double 12โณ singles from Spirit (Depeche Modeโs 14th studio album): Whereโs the Revolution (originally released 3 February 2017, in advance of the album), Going Backwards (released 23 June 2017), and Cover Me (released 6 October 2017), the set comes in a numbered limited edition housed in a deluxe slipcase.
New Direction
As a bonus for Depeche Mode fans, Spirit | The 12โณ Singles premieres a special seventh disc: the first-ever 12โณ vinyl pressing of the bandโs legendary Highline Sessions, recorded live in New York City on 3 August 2016. The most complete recording of the Highline Sessions ever released in any format, this five-song 12โณ vinyl single includes Depeche Modeโs galvanising cover of David Bowieโs Heroes (celebrating the anthemโs 2017 40th anniversary) and two previously unreleased performances of songs from Spirit: So Much Love and Poison Heart.
Depeche Modeโs Spirit | The 12โณ Singles includes seven 12โณ 180g vinyl discs, riveting artwork re-contextualising original album covers, a replica poster and download card.
The Depeche Mode songs recorded for their Spirit album took place between April and August 2016 at Sound Design in Santa Barbara, California and Jungle City in New York, working for the first time with producer James Ford. Released through Columbia/Mute on 17 March 2017, Spirit was the last Depeche Mode studio album to feature founding member and keyboardist Andy Fletcher before his passing on 26 May 2022.
Spirit pushed Depeche Mode into unexpected new directions and expanded the bandโs aesthetic vision and musical repertoire while continuing their tradition of issuing monumental 12โณ singles to supplement and complement their albums.
Spirited Series
Sony Music Entertainment released the first two boxsets in the Depeche Mode 12โณ singles series โ Speak & Spell | The Singles and A Broken Frame | The Singles โ in August 2018 with the second batch โ Construction Time Again | The 12โณ Singles and Some Great Reward | The 12โณ Singles โ arriving in December 2018.
SME released Depeche Modeโs Black Celebration | The 12โณ Singles and Music For The Masses | The 12โณ Singles on 31 May 2019. 2020 saw the release of Violator | The 12โณ Singles in July and Songs Of Faith And Devotion | The 12โณ Singles in October.
The ninth collection in the series, Ultra | The 12โณ Singles was released on 27 September 2021 with the tenth volume, Exciter | The 12โณ Singles, arriving on 10 June 2022.
The 11th volume in the series, Playing The Angel | The 12โณ Singles, was released in November 2022. While 2023 saw the release of Sounds Of The Universe | The 12โณ Singles in August with Delta Machine | The 12โณ Singles following in September.
The artwork for the exterior of each of the boxsets draws on iconography inspired by the original releases, while the vinyl sleeves themselves feature the original single artwork.
Depeche Mode Spirit | The 12โณ Singles
Disc One and Disc Two โ Whereโs The Revolution (12BONG 47)
A Whereโs The Revolution โ Autolux Remix / Pearson Sound Remix
B Whereโs The Revolution โ Algiers Click Farm Remix / Simian Mobile Disco Remix / Pearson Sound Beatless Remix
C Whereโs The Revolution โ Simian Mobile Disco Dub / Terence Fixmer Spatial Mix
D Whereโs The Revolution โ Patrice Bรคumel Remix / Ewan Pearson Kompromat Dub
Disc Three and Disc Four โ Going Backwards (12BONG 48)
A Going Backwards Chris Liebing Mix
B Going Backwards Solomun Club Remix / The Belleville Three Deep Bass Dub
C Going Backwards Chris Liebing Burn Slow Mix / Point Point Remix
D You Move (Latroit Remix) and Poison Heart (Soulsavers Re-Work)
Disc Five and Disc Six โ Cover Me (12BONG 49)
A Cover Me Ellen Allien U.F.O. RMX / I Hate Models Cold Lights Remix
B Cover Me (Nicole Moudaber Remix) and So Much Love (Kalli Remix)
C Cover Me Erol Alkan White Light Rework / Texas Gentlemen Remix
D Cover Me Warpaint Steez Remix / Josh T. Pearson Choose Hellth Remix
Disc Seven โ The Highline Sessions (12BONG 50)
A Going Backwards / So Much Love / Poison Heart
B The Worst Crime / Heroes
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