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Although his main project Depeche Mode is known for challenging electronic elements in the new wave genre, Dave Gahan has been splashing around in the alternative rock world through his collaborative side project with Soul Savers, releasing a stream today for his second release, Angels & Ghosts. Listen below. 

Gahan explained that sketches for the next project had been thrown around since the release of 2012's The Lights The Dead See, but Depeche Mode’s intense touring schedule stopped them from being fully realised until now.

The project will be released 23 October but is being streamed exclusively through NPR right now. 

Listen to Angels & Ghosts below

“I was skeptical at first because I wasn’t sure I had any good ideas at all,” Gahan told Pitchfork of going back to writing material after the world tour. “You feel like that sometimes after a tour; it’s a depleted feeling like you just don’t have anything good to do anymore. You put out all that energy and the adrenaline’s flying and suddenly you’re back home with the wife and kids and you have to go get the groceries, a lot of changes.”

The fifth studio album from UK electronica production duo Soul Savers, Angels & Ghosts is wildly different from any Depeche Mode offerings, Gahan being backed by huge choirs and ominous horns on this nine track, expansive and sonically ambitious project.

He went on to explain that writing Angels & Ghosts didn’t come with the pressure of a Depeche Mode album. “It was a record that was made not under pressure. For example, when I’m making a record with [Depeche Mode], there are expectations that you put upon yourself before you even get started. But this was really free of that completely…”

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