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Dave Gahan - Hourglass
| Musicomh | | With such a wealth of personal experience to draw from, Dave Gahan will never be short of lyrical inspiration for his songs, the beating heart of Depeche Mode having already been through more than you or I could expect to reasonably encounter in a lifetime....full text |
| | Ptchforkmedia | | This has presumably been a strange and exciting decade to be a member of Depeche Mode: Seven years during which dark, blustery electro-pop has come back as a mainstream force, especially in their native UK, and sometimes in exactly the terms they were supplying it 15 or 20 years ago. They've noticed this, surely. Perhaps it's why, after sidetracking into a minimal, techy sound on 2001's Exciter, they ran right back to blaring, grainy bombast on 2005's Playing the Angel. And perhaps it's why, after a solo debut that differentiated itself from DM by putting a guitar up front, singer Dave Gahan has veered back toward the drama you expect of him....full text |
| | Bbc | | Hourglass, Dave Gahan’s second solo outing, is crammed to the gallery with sweeping keyboard grandeur, majestic rhythms and hymns to the lowlife. Ten superb slices of cutting-edge electronica, dosed liberally with a guitar sound straight from the 1980s; the album slithers around outsider influences on a trip from Bowie’s Berlin decadence, via David Sylvian’s Japan, to the sordid back alleyways of Marc Almond’s Soho....full text |
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