DEPECHE MODE: FAITH AND DEVOTION

Ian Gittins (Palazzo)

Palazzo have a good track record of producing handsome coffee table books of various artists – the two reviewed last year in these pages both got positive feedback. This one, on Depeche Mode, continues that fine trend, with immaculate layout, tracking the band’s beginnings in stale Basildon, Essex to their pomp selling out arenas. The photography is beautiful, the writing is sharp and to the point (featuring a look at each album and the reactions to it at the time) and although the structure hardly reinvents the wheel for coffee table books, this works well for any hardcore Depeche fan – except perhaps alt-right fascist Richard Spencer, whose professed love of the band gets excoriated towards the end. FT

Price: £25. Info: www.palazzoeditions.com