Depeche Mode new album - YES!

Depeche Mode plan to begin work in January on their first album since 2001's Exciter.

Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andrew Fletcher will meet next month in Santa Barbara, Calfornia, with Mute Records chief Daniel Miller, their manager Jonathan Kessler and producer Ben Hiller to discuss plans for the album.

Last year frontman Gahan released his debut solo album, Paper Monsters, and threatened to leave the band unless Depeche Mode's songwriter guitarist-keyboard player Gore was willing to involve him more in songwriting.

He told German magazine Spiegel, "Martin sometimes even told me how to sing certain passages. I often felt like an instrument being used by others."

Since their breakthrough hit in 1981 with New Life, Depeche Mode have become one of Britain's most successful rock exports playing arenas wouldwide in support of best selling albums like Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion.

Co-founder keyboard player Vince Clarke quit in 1981 to form Yazoo. His replacement Alan Wilder left the band in 1995.
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