Dave Gahan

Those of you who think all the songwriting talent in Depeche Mode lies with Martin Gore are going to have to change your minds after hearing this album. With all due respect to his bandmates, one could be forgiven for thinking this is a new Mode release -- it's that good. Sounding like he's popped into the Mode studio to use all their equipment while they're down at the pub, Gahan has crafted something pleasingly derivative yet new, particularly with the excellent "Kingdom" and the beautiful "Insoluble." Perhaps now his songs will squeeze onto Mode albums a bit more often.

After a dull disc of roots stuff, the Depeche man goes electro again letting Dave Gahan write
his own songs sounds kind of like letting Rose McGowan do her own plastic surgery. But
the Depeche Mode crooner has learned a trick or two after a couple of decades selling
Martin Gore songs. Even his fans didn't have big expectations for his 2003 solo debut, Paper
Monsters, yet it turned out to be a bit of all right, and he wrote a few nice ones f... More >