Depeche Mode Darken the Mood on New Song ‘My Cosmos Is Mine’ – Rolling Stone

Depeche Mode have shared the opening monitor from their upcoming LP Memento Mori, “My Cosmos Is Mine.”

On the heels of the pulsing synth-pop first single, “Ghosts Once more,” “My Cosmos Is Mine” is darker, slower, and extra foreboding than its predecessor and kicks off the band’s first album with out late keyboardist Andy “Fletch” Fletcher on a somber notice.

“Don’t play with my world / Don’t mess with my thoughts / Don’t query my spacetime / My cosmos is mine,” Dave Gahan sings near-monotone on the atmospheric monitor. “Don’t toy with my coronary heart / Don’t knock down my shrines / Don’t alter my headlines / My cosmos is mine.”

On the bridge, Gahan chants, “No struggle, no extra, no worry, not right here, no rain, no clouds… no remaining breaths, no mindless deaths.”

As Gahan beforehand informed Rolling Stone of the Memento Mori in October, “To me, it’s acquired a cinematic high quality to it. It takes you on a little bit of a visit, beginning in a spot the place we’re like, ‘That is my world,’ and ending with, ‘How do I take advantage of it?’”

Memento Mori — Depeche Mode’s fifteenth studio album, their first since 2017’s Spirit in addition to their first as a duo — arrives on March 24. A day earlier than the album’s launch, the band will embark on a short North American trek earlier than heading abroad to Europe for a summer-long tour. They’ll then return stateside for a extra intensive trek in help of the LP.

“The direct translation [for ‘memento mori’] is, ‘Keep in mind that you should die,’” Gahan informed Rolling Stone of the LP. “A whole lot of the songs are going into that place of reminding ourselves that our time is fleeting, and you bought to make the very best of it — in a constructive method.”