Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterDave Gahan is no stranger to singing other people’s songs. Although for most of his career, those songs all came from the same source.
As the lead singer and frontman for seminal synth-rock outfit Depeche Mode, Gahan spent his first flush of fame as an interpreter of sorts, using his plaintive, sensual baritone to turn songs written by bandmate Martin Gore into deathless goth-pop anthems, inspiring acts as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, the Deftones and Coldplay.
But aside from a few one-offs, he’d never attempted a full album of covers until now.“Imposter,” set for release tomorrow, is Gahan’s third full-length collaboration with the Soulsavers, led by multi-instrumentalist Rich Machin.
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