A screen is slit. A window raised. Black gloves, black pants on the sill, and then slime, dark as the night, oozes into the room. A figure stands in the light, casting sinister shadows on the wall ...

For most of Depeche Mode's career, their music, via Gore's songwriting, has explored the darkness ... Cohen's song “Anthem”: “There is a crack, a crack in everything/That’s how the light ...