Before We Drown
"Before We Drown" is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 9 February 2024 as the sixth single from their fifteenth studio album, Memento Mori.On 27 January 2024, two days before its official video's release, "Before We Drown" made its live debut at the O2 Arena in London.[2][3] Focusing on themes of mortality and salvation, and filmed in black and white, the video shows a gloomy figure in an overcoat who slowly walks into a dangerous sea, and, in the end, the elements consume him.[4][5] For the Memento Mori album, Corbijn also directed videos for "Wagging Tongue", "Ghosts Again"[6] and "My Favourite Stranger".Kory Grow of Rolling Stone stated, "'Before We Drown', cowritten by Gahan, drummer Christian Eigner and multi-instrumentalist Peter Gordeno (members of Depeche Mode's touring lineup), builds tension minute after minute, as Gahan sings, 'First we stand up, then we fall down/We have to move forward, before we drown'.