   construction time again is the third studio album by english electronic music band depeche mode, released on 22 august 1983 by mute records. this was the first depeche mode album with alan wilder, who wrote the songs "two minute warning" and "the landscape is changing", as well as the b-side "fools". the title comes from the second line of the first verse of the track "pipeline". it was supported by the construction time again tour. the album was recorded at john foxx's garden studios in london, engineered by gareth jones (who had also engineered foxx's 1980 album metamatic) and mixed at the hansa tonstudio in berlin. the album's cover artwork features the matterhorn mountain in the pennine alps. ==background and themes== in january 1983, shortly before the release of the "get the balance right!" single, songwriter martin gore attended an einstÃ¼rzende neubauten concert, giving him the idea to experiment with the sounds of industrial music in the context of pop. this experimentation hinged on the band's first use of a synclavier, a synthesiser that not only contained a large number of pre-programmed sounds, but also allowed for samples to be imported. with this, the band proceeded to travel around the neighbourhood where they could tape "found" sounds and feed them into the synclavier, then manipulate the noises to fit into their songs. these sounds consisted mainly of h
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