“Sacred” by Depeche Mode

"Sacred" comes from Music for the Masses, the sixth Depeche Mode album, which Mute released in Britain and Sire in America on 28 September 1987. Martin L. Gore wrote it, Dave Gahan sings it, and the band produced it with David Bascombe, who engineered it too, with Daniel Miller credited as additional producer.

The album followed Black Celebration, and it was recorded between Paris and London before the mix in Denmark, with Alan Wilder taking charge of the production for the first time. It's where the band's gloom opened out into something wide-screen, dark and inward-looking themes set inside a big, expansive sound, with Anton Corbijn's videos and promo materials giving them a new look to match. It's also credited with finally winning them the American following that had always slipped past them before.

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