Depeche Mode - Memento Mori: Mexico City (2 CD) (2025) (FLAC)

Memento Mori: Mexico City is an audio accompaniment to Depeche Mode: M, a 2025 concert film that captures the band's performances at Foro Sol stadium during the 2023-2024 Memento Mori World Tour. What's striking about the live album is just how vital the band sounds well into their fifth decade: They offer up epic renditions of modern standards like “Enjoy the Silence” and “Personal Jesus,” both taken from 1990's Violator.

The band, which now consists of founding members Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, put as much emphasis on their newer work as their sturdiest hits, kicking off the performance with “My Cosmos Is Mine” from 2023's Memento Mori. The live album makes clear that no matter what era they're combing onstage, Depeche Mode remain pioneers of synth-pop, New Wave, and its many modern iterations.

The album concludes with four unreleased songs recorded during the ‘Memento Mori' sessions. Quite why these tracks never made it to the final album is beyond this writer. Of these, ‘Give Yourself To Me' initially carries the same ache as ‘Waiting For The Night' from ‘Violator' before coalescing into a harder, more determined track.

Tracklist
CD 1
1. Intro (Live in Mexico City) (02:17)
2. My Cosmos Is Mine (Live in Mexico City) (04:59)
3. Wagging Tongue (Live in Mexico City) (03:30)
4. Walking In My Shoes (Live in Mexico City) (06:49)
5. It's No Good (Live in Mexico City) (04:58)
6. Sister Of Night (Live in Mexico City) (05:41)
7. In Your Room (Live in Mexico City) (05:08)
8. Everything Counts (Live in Mexico City) (06:49)
9. Precious (Live in Mexico City) (05:00)
10. Speak To Me (Live in Mexico City) (04:43)
11. Home (Live in Mexico City) (05:56)
12. Soul With Me (Live in Mexico City) (05:02)
13. Ghosts Again (Live in Mexico City) (04:04)
14. I Feel You (Live in Mexico City) (04:56)

CD 2
01. A Pain That I'm Used To (Live in Mexico City) (04:25)
02. World In My Eyes (Live in Mexico City) (05:15)
03. Wrong (Live in Mexico City) (04:07)
04. Stripped (Live in Mexico City) (05:04)
05. John the Revelator (Live in Mexico City) (03:48)
06. Enjoy The Silence (Live in Mexico City) (07:44)
07. Waiting for the Night (Live in Mexico City) (05:37)
08. Just Can't Get Enough (Live in Mexico City) (06:17)
09. Never Let Me Down Again (Live in Mexico City) (06:17)
10. Personal Jesus (Live in Mexico City) (06:57)
11. Survive (from the Memento Mori Sessions) (04:18)
12. Life 2.0 (from the Memento Mori Sessions) (03:41)
13. Give Yourself To Me (from the Memento Mori Sessions) (03:44)
14. In The End (from the Memento Mori Sessions) (03:23)