Artist: DAVE GAHAN [DEPECHE MODE]
Album: PAPER MONSTERS (CD IMPORT)

Release date: 2003
EAN/UPS: 888837708722
Media type: CD

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 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.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. Dirty Sticky Floors 
2. Hold On 
3. A Little Piece 
4. Bottle Living 
5. Black & Blue Again 
6. Stay 
7. I Need You 
8. Bitter Apple 
9. Hidden Houses 
10. Goodbye 

DVD-1  A Short Film   
DVD-2  Dirty Sticky Floors (Video)   
DVD-3  Exclusive B-Roll Footage From The Dirty Sticky Floors Video Shoot   
DVD-4  Hold On (Exclusive New York Acoustic Performance)   
DVD-5  A Little Piece (Exclusive New York Acoustic Performance)   
DVD-6  Exclusive B-Roll Footage From The New York Acoustic Performance   
DVD-7  Photo Gallery