Get your own copy of this album at SwapaCD.com. If you're not yet a member, your first 2 cds and membership are free! All you have to do is post 10 cds you want to get rid of. Visit the site to find a huge selection of music!
Get your own copy of this album at SwapaCD.com. If you're not yet a member, your first 2 cds and membership are free! All you have to do is post 10 cds you want to get rid of. Visit the site to find a huge selection of music!
Dave Gahan
Dirty Sticky Floors
Goodbye
The solo debut of Depeche Mode frontman David Gahan has been a long time coming, so you d expect the album to be brimming with messy ideas formulated while Gahan was forced to sing Vince Clarke and Martin Gore songs while .
more »his own were filed away. Yet Paper Monsters is not the wild work of someone newly liberated. These songs feel as if they were written over a short period, rather than plucked from 20-year-worth of unrecorded tunes. There are basically three types of track here: powerful Depeche-style glam ( Dirty Sticky Floors, Bottle Living ); quiet, urban mood music ( A Little Piece, Bitter Apple, Stay ); and rumbling industrial tracks ( Black and Blue Again, Hidden Houses, Goodbye ). Lyrically autobiographical, songs deal with Gahan s trouble with relationships and intoxicants and, though they lack Gore s sense of drama and perversity, they do have a maudlin charm. Dominic Wills