My Favourite Stranger
"My Favourite Stranger" is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 20 October 2023 as the fifth single from their fifteenth studio album, Memento Mori.[2][3] This is one of four tracks on the album written by Martin Gore along with Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs."[4] In his interview for NME Gore explained, "I've never written with anyone outside of the band in our history... Richard reached out to me around April 2020, just texting to say 'We should write some songs together'."[5] On 21 September 2023, an official music video was released for the song directed by Anton Corbijn.[6] Shot entirely in black and white, the video shows a man wandering through the forest and the streets of a city.