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SOUNDS OF MODE

Sounds of Mode is a Zine that explores how music has played an influence on sounds throughout different generations.

With this idea in mind, Sounds of Mode focuses on one specific band, Depeche Mode, and how their post-punk sounds played a huge role in the music that my family listens to and has created. The zine includes photographs of the Depeche Mode band and archive photos/excerpts from the band Прикладное Искусство.

Depeche Mode, the British pioneers of synth-driven pop have long been recognized as icons of musical innovation. But beyond their global reach, their influence took on a particularly unique and profound form in the Eastern Europe, where their music resonated in ways both political and cultural.

Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, Depeche Mode’s blend of melancholic electronica, introspective lyrics, and anti-establishment energy found fertile ground in regions where freedom of expression was often constrained.

Depeche Mode reached Russia primarily through bootleg tapes and pirated cassettes that circulated underground. Western music, especially electronic and synth-pop bands like Depeche Mode, was banned and/or heavily censored in the Soviet Union, but it still found its way to the youth who were eager to hear new sounds from outside the Iron Curtain.

In the late 80s, a groups of boys came together to form their own band.

They called themselves Прикладное Искусство.

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