Soulsavers probably could not have made a better choice of vocalist to front their second album. On The Light the Dead See (2012) the Depeche Mode crooner was a great complement to the British production team’s cinematic, bluesy, noirish backing tracks. Gahan had released two previous solo albums…

There’s this insistent synth bleating running through “Soft Touch/Raw Nerve” that’s so stiff and dopey (and is surely played with one finger) that it puts a smile on my face. That’s because that awkward and quite unsexy line reminds of Depeche Mode’s very earliest output, back when the…