out for a while: Dave Gahan - Paper Monsters [Mute Records | Reprise Records | Sony Music]

Artist:
Dave Gahan

Title:
Paper Monsters

Label:
Mute Records | Reprise Records | Sony Music

Cat#:
STUMM216 | tba | tba

Release Date:
02nd June 2003 (original date)
2021 (vinyl re-release)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
Dirty Sticky Floors

02.
Hold On

03.
A Little Piece

04.
Bottle Living

05.
Black And Blue Again

06.
Stay

07.
I Need You

08.
Bitter Apple

09.
Hidden Houses

10.
Goodbye

Press Info:
Dave Gahan Releases Debut Solo Album ‘Paper Monsters’

Dave Gahan releases “Paper Monsters”, his debut solo album on 2nd June . The first single, ‘Dirty Sticky Floors’, will be released two weeks earlier.

After 22 illustrious years with Depeche Mode, “Paper Monsters” marks Dave’s debut as a fully fledged songwriter. He wrote all ten tracks with his multi-instrumentalist friend Knox Chandler. The album was produced by Ken Thomas of Sigur Ros fame. “Paper Monsters” marries the freshness of a freshman effort with the seasoned wisdom of an old soul. It was recorded, mostly in New York, in an open-ended, back-to-basics manner which Dave found both liberating and exhilarating.

“What really hit me most was how happy and fulfilled it made me feel,” Dave says with a smile. “I wanted to hear something that makes me feel good. That’s been the train of thought throughout this record and Ken’s been really great with that.”

Highlights are many and include the rock-star bravado of the first single ‘Dirty Sticky Floors’, the quiet awe of ‘Stay’ and the wonderful equilibrium of ‘A Little Piece’.

The vinyl was re-issued by Sony.

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