- Artist
- Depeche Mode
- Album
- Memento Mori
Based on 11 reviews from outlets we track. Scores run 68 to 92.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Spill Magazine | 9.2/10 | 92 | “Depeche Mode Memento Mori Columbia Records Depeche Mode continues to cement its legacy as one of the best bands to come out of the 1980s with their latest release Memento…” |
| XS Noize | 4.5/5 | 90 | “A thing that is overlooked about Depeche Mode is their constant need to keep moving, innovating, and recording new material, something their contemporaries” |
| musicOMH | 4.5/5 | 90 | “With the bridge that ‘Fletch’ provided now absent, Dave Gahan and Martin Gore have realigned, uniting to preserve the legacy of the band and mark his memory” |
| Clash | 9/10 | 90 | “” |
| Beats Per Minute | 82% | 82 | “Music News, Reviews, Interviews, Videos and MP3s” |
| Uncut | 8/10 | 80 | “Now a mordant synth duo, the surviving members of Depeche Mode have released Memento Mori – their finest record of the 21st century.” |
| Record Collector | 4/5 | 80 | “Following the loss of Andrew Fletcher, Memento Mori furnished the Mode with a late-career peak and a particularly grandiose tour. A memoir of that live” |
| Riff Magazine | 8/10 | 80 | “Spurred on both by lockdowns and the death of Andrew Fletcher, the new album by Depeche Mode is brooding and claustrophobic.” |
| Pitchfork | 7.1/10 | 71 | “Read Grayson Haver Currin’s review of the album.” |
| PopMatters | 7/10 | 70 | “Depeche Mode's Memento Mori is a testament to the power of art to call us to see more clearly in the absence of resolution.” |
| Spectrum Culture | 68/100 | 68 | “Memento Mori is a reminder of death, but it is also a reminder of Depeche Mode itself, a synth-rock institution that continues to resonate among those who feel lost and…” |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Critics who liked it is the share of outlets that scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not whether critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number.
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