Ssss album cover
Ssss

VCMG

2012
Mute

The initial news that Vince Clarke and Martin Gore were working together for the first time in thirty years after the former’s departure from Depeche Mode was intriguing enough. But what was even more remarkable was that Ssss was a hard-edged instrumental blast of catchy but not stereotypically poppy electronic dance music leaning in to early synths in particular. At once a tribute and feeling like the future, Ssss’s best songs like “Lowly,” “Spock” and “Recycle” manage to sound neither like Gore’s or Clarke’s bands, but simply their own enjoyable creations.

Ned Raggett

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