Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode is releasing an album of covers, titled Imposter.
Set for release in November, the album marks Gahan’s third full-length collaborative project with Soulsakers (AKA Rich Machin). On the record, Gahan covers tracks by PJ Harvey, Neil Young, Cat Power, Mark Lanegan, Charlie Chaplin and more. The first single, a cover of Cat Power’s ‘Metal Heart’, will be released this Friday (October 8).
"When I listen to other people’s voices and songs — more importantly the way they sing them and interpret the words — I feel at home," says Gahan of his new project. "I identify with it. It comforts me more than anything else. There’s not one performer on the record who I haven’t been moved by."
Imposter, which was recorded as a ten-member band at California’s Shangri-La Recording Studio in November 2019, follows on from 2015’s Angels & Ghosts and 2012’s The Light The Dead See, as well as two solo LPs – Hourglass (2007) and Paper Monsters (2003) – that Gahan released in the decade before.
Columbia will release Imposter on November 12, 2021.
