IESB Music - After working with Depeche Mode on the 2005 album Playing The Angel and touring for the album well into 2006, lead singer Dave Gahan has decided to go back into the studio to record a second solo album, Hourglass due out in October.

{sidebar id=1}DAVE GAHAN RETURNS WITH HOURGLASS OCTOBER 23 VIA MUTE/VIRGIN RECORDS - ALBUMS FIRST SINGLE KINGDOM ARRIVED AT RADIO AUGUST 27.

Watch David Gahan talk about his new album by clicking on the link below!

Video Interview and Making Of: David Gahan on Hourglass - 18 Minute Video

I feel this record has been an amazing opportunity to push the artist in me, says DAVE GAHAN of his second album HOURGLASS, due October 23 via Mute/Virgin Records. The record follows the Depeche Mode front mans acclaimed 2003 solo album Paper Monsters that marked his debut as a full-fledged songwriter.

The albums first single--the soaring and pulsating Kingdom--will arrive at radio August 27. Its this idea that theres a better place, and its not up there in the clouds, its right here, says GAHAN. And its about becoming more accepting of life and the way it is. I would be lying if I said the world didnt affect me. I have children and I want to protect them; and sometimes I dont really have the ability to do that.

GAHAN wrote and produced all the songs on HOURGLASS--decidedly more electronic than Paper Monsters--in collaboration with Christian Eigner (drums) of Depeche Modes touring band and Andrew Phillpott (guitars), who served as a programmer for Depeche Mode touring. Tony Hoffer, known for his work with Beck, Air, the Kooks and the Fratellis, mixed the album.

On HOURGLASS, Eigner proves a strikingly versatile drummer, creating gentle rhythmic ambiance one moment, and thundering, freight-train beats the next. And with electronics providing most of the musical environment of Hourglass, Phillpotts guitar playing roams freely into fantastical atmospherics, especially evident on Kingdom.

What might surprise Gahan followers most are the albums moments of exhilarating industrial aggression, as in the blistering, hyper-sexual Deeper and Deeper. Perhaps more importantly for the singer, Hourglass is a journey of the soul. In Kingdom he confesses that Glory doesnt mean that much to me while wondering aloud if there really is something beyond what we can see with our own eyes--a superstar struggling to find a humbler self within him. And his personal doubts are in full evidence on the ethereal, Eno-esque Miracles where he admits, I dont believe in Jesus / But Im praying anyway.

With its themes of racing against--and running out of--time, the songs on HOURGLASS dig deeper into Gahans psyche.

I dont know if its about age, just getting older, he wonders. But there are certain things that just dont work anymore. Theres no longer the luxury of being able to get blind drunk every night and just hide behind that. My fear is that Ive wasted so much time in fear, in fear of diving in. I feel like Im racing against the clock; I feel constantly like I havent got enough time to get to where I wanna be. And I think what Im afraid of is what the future may hold, and am I doing anything of meaning?

The HOURGLASS track listing is:

1) Saw Something
2) Kingdom
3) Deeper And Deeper
4) 21 Days
5) Miracles
6) Use You
7) Insoluble
8) Endless
9) A Little Lie
10) Down

Watch David Gahan talk about his new album by clicking on the link below!

Video Interview and Making Of: David Gahan on Hourglass

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