Andrew McDonald, Journalist

Painful as it is, the group are better left as a live nostalgia act.

There’s very little wrong here, it’s just not going to leave a lasting impression on any but the most devote fans.

Water On Mars is a brief, to-the-point record made with equal parts sugar and vinegar, worth a place on any modern hard rock collector’s shelf, even if they do dip into calmer waters a little too often.

f You Leave isn’t a perfect record, but it’s a bold debut album from a haunting and powerful trio who have a very bright, and paradoxically dark, future ahead of them.

This is a good album that could stand as an oddball highlight in a lesser band’s oeuvre, but Depeche Mode have set their modern-day standards a little out of this record’s reach.

There’ll be an audience for this album, no doubt, but even they will struggle to find reason to revisit this more than a handful of times.