“I’ve worked with Depeche Mode, and Martin Gore has always had his eye on what’s going on in the world politically. I approached them quite early on but their process is often quite painfully slow, so I wasn’t expecting anything to come of it for a while. Then, weirdly, it was probably one of the first tracks that got delivered once Martin had found the [Buffy Sainte-Marie] track to cover. I love it when people really flip a cover version to make it feel like their own track. He sent me something within a couple of weeks, well before the Abbey Road sessions, so we had that early doors. I think it’s a really interesting version.

“They have a pretty regular three or four-year cycle, so I’m pretty sure Martin is writing. Whether or not that materialises sooner rather than later, who knows?” (James Ford in NME)