Greg Mendez- First Time / Alone Depeche Mode with the help of Dama

with the help of Dama Scout bandmate Luciano Rossi as co-producer

The idea was to change the way we wrote and to have four people along the front of the stage essentially playing percussion

This session of sound research and recording was done in front of a live audience

Created by John Cleese and Connie Booth

Greg Mendez- First Time / Alone Depeche Mode with the help of DamaFirst Time Alone, Greg Mendez's new EP and first release with Dead Oceans, came together in late summer and early fall of 2023; the songs here appear in the order in which they were written, recorded straight to four track in the small spare room of his West Philadelphia apartment. It's a four song arc, a spectral passageway, one brief and fluid body of work that hangs together from the mournful opening of "Mountain Dew Hell" to the pitched up vocals