Depeche Mode will return in 2023 with a new album and tour.

Their 15th studio album, Memento Mori, is due out in the spring. And in a break with tradition, they’ll start their world tour in North America and then head elsewhere. That leg will start March 23rd in Sacramento, California and wrap up April 14th in New York City. Tickets go on sale Friday. 

This is the first album and tour that Dave Gahan and Martin L Gore will do after Andy Fletcher died on May 26th. And they don’t plan to replace him on the road. Gahan tells Rolling Stone, “We’re not going to replace Fletch; there’s no reason to replace Fletch. That would be impossible. There was only one Fletch, that’s for sure.” So Gahan and Gore are working with multi-instrumentalist Peter Gordeno and drummer Christian Eigner, who’ve been touring with them since the late ’90s, on how to pull it off live.

Depeche Mode hadn’t entered the studio to start recording the new album when Fletcher died. Gahan says, “All the songs were already written before Fletch passed, but when something happens, an event like this in your life, songs change: They take on different forms and have different meanings when you sing them. I think when I was singing some of the vocals, I was reflecting on all kinds of things, but certainly Fletch came up in my mind quite a lot.”