Depeche Mode Releasing Album

NEW YORK (AP) â€” Children of the '80s, get excited. Depeche Mode is releasing its first album in four years. <br><br>The group plans to have ``Exciter'' in stores in late May. The first album

Friday, January 19th 2001, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

NEW YORK (AP) â€” Children of the '80s, get excited. Depeche Mode is releasing its first album in four years.

The group plans to have ``Exciter'' in stores in late May. The first album since 1997's ``Ultra,'' it's described in Friday's editions of USA Today as ``a sonic cousin to 1986's diverse `Black Celebration.'''

Singer Dave Gahan told the newspaper, ``I'm a lot more confident vocally. when you're singing a song, it's like you can just disappear into it. On `Ultra' I was not able to do that because I wasn't physically able to bring all of myself to it. Now I feel like I'm firing on all cylinders.''

After pumping out 14 albums in the 1980s and early '90s, Depeche Mode slowed down in 1995 when Gahan was hospitalized for an apparent suicide attempt. In 1996, he was arrested on drug charges after being found unconscious in a Los Angeles hotel room.