New Alan Wilder, Dave Gahan Releases

[Moozik: Killing Joke - This Tribal Antidote]

2007 looks like a busy year of solo projects for both former and current Depeche Mode members. In a little over a week, Alan's new Recoil album, Subhuman, comes out. I've heard some previews and I'm really looking forward to it. Then later in the year, Dave Gahan will release his second solo album, Hourglass. From the press release.

While Depeche Mode is catching their breath, Gahan recently returned to the studio to record an array of songs that would become Hourglass. Created without the pressure of a deadline, Gahan wrote and produced all the songs in collaboration with Christian Eigner (drums) and Andrew Phillpott (guitars) of the Depeche Mode touring band. They worked at Gahan's 11th Floor Studios in his adopted hometown of NYC where he's lived for the past 10 years. Tony Hoffer, known for his work with Beck, Air, the Kooks and the Fratellis, has been tapped to mix the album in July.

Gahan says Hourglass is more electronic-sounding than Paper Monsters, "but we were very aware of the importance of keeping urgency in the sound and a feeling of spontaneity. We didn't want to get bogged down in trying to make everything sound perfect. You want to keep the rough edges."

Gahan adds: "Christian plays drums and Andrew can easily find his way around bass and guitar - and then we're basically cutting all this stuff up and fucking with it by using ProTools, effects and all kinds of stuff. Accidents do happen, and they're good."