There's no doubt this time: Playing the Angel is both the band's best album since Violator and, more significantly, an album that is near Violator in stature." — 

Started back in 1980, Depeche Mode quickly made a name for themselves in the world of pop, rock, new wave and electronic music. Playing the Angel, originally released in October 2005, returns to dark, brooding greatness that is Depeche Mode. Its an emotionally loaded, characteristically long faced, distortion-pocked masterwork — a "Personal Jesus" level accomplishment.

SIDE A
1. A Pain That I’m Used To
2. John the Revelator
3. Suffer Well

SIDE B
1. The Sinner in Me
2. Precious
3. Macro

SIDE C
1. I Want It All
2. Nothing’s Impossible
3. Introspectre
4. Damaged People

SIDE D
1. Lilian
2. The Darkest Star