His new album is full of songs that moved him when he was younger. Now, he’s giving his own take on those songs in hopes of moving listeners.
Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan joined Audacy’s Nicole Alvarez for an Audacy Check In as he took her inside the making of Imposter, his upcoming collaborative album with Soulsavers, real name Rich Machin, that is filled with covers of songs that inspired the duo.
The album, which will be released on November 12th, comes in at a total of twelve tracks and features covers of the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and even Charlie Chaplin.
Nicole began the conversation by asking Gahan whether he chose the songs or if the songs chose him. “You know what,” Gahan says, “they chose me.”
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“I didn’t know that until we were actually recording this. I thought I was choosing the songs, and Rich too," he says. "We were making lists of songs, artists, and singers that we felt moved by that had somehow represented a point in our life as music does, and still does for me and most lovers of music.”
“Once we picked all these songs and started recording,” Gahan continued, “I realized it was the songs that were picking me.”
He also had another epiphany as recording got underway. “It became weirdly confessional,” Gahan said.
The sequencing of the album was as essential to telling the whole story as picking the songs was. Even if it takes several times listening through the album, Gahan promises there’ll be an “I got it” moment.
As Gahan explains, “I do think you have to listen a few times. Then you’re suddenly like, ‘Oh! Ok!’ because hopefully what that does is draws you in for the chance to not just hear great music, but with these words, especially in the last couple of years everything we’ve all been together, I needed to feel a connection to something.”
“I’ve learned this over the years about making music, but for me, it has to take you on a little journey,” he added. “It’s got to take you somewhere and more importantly [you’ve] got to believe that.”
Dave Gahan and Soulsavers new album Imposter is scheduled to be released on November 12th.
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