3/2/2023 0 Comments Dave gahan paper monsters tourPerhaps tweaking the track order a little might have helped remedy this problem. “Hidden Houses” has some cool, trippy distorted guitar chords, but it just feels like the album’s zenith was already reached and we’re just coasting along to the end right now. “Bitter Apple” makes neat use of that scratchy, skipping record sound in the background, but it goes on for about two minutes too long. “I Need You” brings the tempo back up a notch after the sadness of “Stay”, and does it’s job well within the confines of the album, but alone it doesn’t stand out much… which makes me wonder the decision to make it one of the singles released from this album. However, the album loses it’s legs slightly (just like Dave’s used to… oh… bad joke) during the second half. It even sounds like Gahan gets ever so slightly choked up during certain moments of the song. “Black and Blue Again” is a hazy, bluesy sounding cut that takes the minimalist approach until breaking out into a brilliant cacophony of sounds while Dave growls “You said I’m not very nice./You see I’m not very nice.” And despite all the evils and bitterness mentioned on the album, “Stay” is by far the saddest track, and if it doesn’t at least bring a tear to your eye, you must be part of the Borg. It’s heavy, electronic blues groove, coupled with a shockingly good use of a harmonica in a rock song make it one of the standout tracks. But after three slow, sad, and emotive tracks, “Bottle Living” makes sure the listener stays awake by delivering a rage filled boot to the face. His singing is as good as ever, filled with sentiment in all the right places. “Hold On” and “A Little Piece” continue the theme, as Gahan recounts tales of fighting demons and the stark loneliness alcholism brings with it. Dave’s gasp of air at the end of this track is particularly unsettling, representing the moment he suddenly came back to life after lying (quite literally) dead for a few minutes. The lyrics aren’t exactly high-class poetry, but are instead blunt, most of the time very gloomy, getting directly to the point and not skirting around anything. “Dirty Sticky Floor”, and just about all of the songs on Paper Monsters deal with Dave’s well-known problems with booze and drugs. The album begins and immediately dumps the listener into the dark, cold, rain soaked alleys of the songwriter’s mind. I suppose the problem with that is you probably won’t like Dave Gahan’s solo work if you don’t already have a tolerance for Depeche Mode. That’s not watered down keep in mind… my opinion is that Paper Monsters is a rougher, low key translation of DM with a raw electronic sheen. Being the experienced musician and songwriter that Dave is, the album has no trouble finding it’s identity, which is almost like a stripped down version of Depeche Mode’s music. Paper Monsters is Dave Gahan’s solo debut. Besides, an album with ‘monsters’ in the title is bound to be bustling with scariness, right? We’ll find out what Bela Lugosi thinks later… So let us accompany You on Your way through our store.Someone wanted me to review a Depeche Mode album, but this will have to do for now. Sounds good, right? Thats good for You and good for us. If many visitors leave our site during the purchase process while choosing the payment method, we know that something is wrong and can improve it. Nor do we pass this data on to Google, we don not have them not at all! Nevertheless, this data of SOMEONE will provide us with valuable information about our site, we want You to like everything here, that You feel good and - of course - buy our products. We do not know who You are, whether You are male or female, how old You are, how Your weight is - no idea. But look at it: we do not even know who YOU are, we just see that SOMEONE looks at our pages, how he/she does that, how long this SOMEONE lingers on the respective pages, etc. That sounds dramatically to You, we know. Why do we have to do that? Quite simply, you have forbidden us to watch Your steps on our site with Google Analytics. Too bad, now we have to go back to the glass ball or read in the coffee grounds to understand our visitors.
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