Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame (1982) [Complete LP] North America

A Broken Frame is the second studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 27 September 1982 by Mute Records. The album was written entirely by Martin Gore and was recorded as a trio after the departure of Vince Clarke, who had left and formed Yazoo with singer Alison Moyet. Alan Wilder was part of a second band tour in the United Kingdom prior to the release of A Broken Frame, but had not officially joined yet and does not appear on the album.

Despite being a photograph, the cover artwork is intended to resemble a painting. It depicts a woman cutting grain in an East Anglian field, near Duxford, Cambridgeshire. It was taken by Brian Griffin (who had previously taken the cover photograph for Speak & Spell and press photos for the band) using a mixture of natural and artificial lighting. Griffin cited as inspirations the socialist realism of Soviet Russia, especially the work of Kazimir Malevich, and German Romanticism.

Tracklist:
A1 - Leave In Silence 0:00
A2 - My Secret Garden 6:30
A3 - Monument 11:18
A4 - Nothing To Fear 14:34
A5 - See You 18:53
B1 - Satellite 23:28
B2 - The Meaning Of Love 28:12
B3 - Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden 31:19
B4 - A Photograph Of You 35:45
B5 - Shouldn't Have Done That 38:50
B6 - The Sun & The Rainfall 42:13

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