For nearly four decades now, Dave Gahan has been the predominant vocalist in Depeche Mode. As such, Gahan's voice has only grown stronger over the years—deeper, more controlled, and more iconic. During this time, that voice has mostly been employed in the service of someone else's songs, that…

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Though we haven’t been treated to a new album from Depeche Mode since 2013’s Delta Machine, there’s been plenty of public activity from the veteran synth-pop makers of late. Back in the spring, founding member and main songwriter Martin Gore opted to go solo for a pleasantly plinking…

Once the Delta Machine stopped moving around the world's stadiums and arenas, Depeche Mode commenced their usual post tour hibernation, prompting speculation about what solo efforts we'd see before the next Mode project (as the band seem to call them these days) popped up. Martin's ventures into…

For years, the mutual commitment between Depeche Mode and their fans has been almost “religious”. Gahan has in the main, provided the voice to Martin Gore’s continuing themes of love, sex, and religion. Indeed, fans have often wondered whether Gore was writing for himself or for Gahan and it…

Maybe the “Personal Jesus” video colored the song’s sound, but for a moment I thought Depeche Mode would evolve into a cowboy band. Not a country band, but an act with a David Lynchian, Spaghetti Western feel. (That reverb and twangy guitar riff did a number on me.) Well, DM frontman Dave…

With Depeche Mode, frontman Dave Gahan's haunting baritone often provides the human touch within songwriter Martin Gore's icy electronic tableaus. With Soulsavers — a British production duo known for its gospel-inflected, organic sound — the singer has room to grow into something more. Angels…

“It amazes me, actually, that I’ve gotten away with it for this long,” laughs iconic Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan, sitting with Yahoo Music, as he reflects on his 35 years in the music business and discusses his epic second gospel/space-rock album with U.K. production duo Soulsavers,…