Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	65/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Alternative Press	4/5
Entertainment Weekly	B−
The Guardian
NME	8/10
Pitchfork Media	5.5/10
Q
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine
Spin	5/10

Exciter is the tenth studio album by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2001 by Mute Records and in the United States on 15 May by Reprise Records. The album was produced by Mark Bell of Björk and LFO fame. The album also launched the Exciter Tour, one of the band's most successful tours.

Exciter debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart and at number eight on the Billboard 200, selling 115,000 copies in its first week in the US. It is the only Depeche Mode album to debut higher in the US than in the UK. As of April 2006, Exciter had sold more than 426,000 copies in the US, and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album was also certified Gold in Canada for shipments of 50,000 units. The remastered album was released on "deluxe" vinyl 30 March 2007 in Germany and 1 October 2007 internationally.

The plant that appears on the cover is the agave attenuata, a species of agave sometimes known as the "lion's tail", "swan's neck," or "foxtail" for its development of a curved stem, unusual among agaves. It is used to produce tequila.

On 2 October 2007 (3 October in North America) Exciter was re-released in a two-disc set, along with Ultra, in the fourth and final set of Depeche Mode reissues. The first disc was a remastered version of the original, on an SACD/CD hybrid (only a CD in the US). The second disc is a DVD which features the album in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM Stereo. The B-sides from Exciter as well as the single version of "Freelove" are included. There are also audio versions of all the live Exciter tracks played during the One Night in Paris movie.

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