"'Bloodline' indicates that Alan Wilder has been a key figure in Depeche Mode's development, from their early pop nursery rhymes to the darker, heavily textured style they adopted in the mid-80's. Wilder concocts the filmic soundscapes, slow burning things that slip into melodramatic grandeur through a side door.

Douglas McCarthy blisters Alex Harvey's 'Faith Healer', Curve's Toni Halliday drenches 'Edge To Life' and 'Bloodline' in drowsy paranoia. 'Electro Blues For Bukka White' has long-gone disembodied bluesman White, muttering and wailing underneath an eastern drone that both eulogises and ignores him. Like the rest of 'Bloodline', the effect is disconcerting but ultimately very moving."

Vox