{"id":974379,"date":"2020-01-13T02:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=935413"},"modified":"2020-01-13T02:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T09:59:27","slug":"hear-depeche-modes-dave-gahans-moving-new-collaborative-song-shock-collar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/hear-depeche-modes-dave-gahans-moving-new-collaborative-song-shock-collar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Depeche Mode\u2019s Dave Gahan\u2019s Moving New Collaborative Song \u2018Shock Collar\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan<\/a>, who is no stranger to collaborative projects, has joined up with a new collective called Humanist for a moody new song called \u201cShock Collar.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the video, he pleads that he \u201cnever lied,\u201d in his signature croon, singing amid swirling guitars and electro drums as strobes flash red and blue around him. The song will appear on the first album by Humanist, due out February 21st.<\/p>\n

Humanist is a new project by Rob Marshall, who plays guitar with Exit Calm and previously wrote two albums with Mark Lanegan: Gargoyle<\/em> and Somebody\u2019s Knocking<\/em>. His other guests on the record include Lanegan, Ride\u2019s Mark Gardner, Ron Sexsmith and Unkle\u2019s Joel Cadbury, among others. Gahan and Marshall filmed the song\u2019s video in New York and used the song\u2019s imagery of halos and light as guideposts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a pleasure to be asked to be a part of Rob\u2019s Humanist project,\u201d Gahan said in a statement. \u201cMark Lanegan asked me, and I liked the idea immediately. It\u2019s a beast! I went for the vocal, with the visual of driving fast on an empty highway. We shot the video over a couple of days in New York, and it all came together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He got the idea for the project from watching The Living Room<\/em>, a documentary about singer Gavin Clark, whose manager also used to look after Marshall. The day after he watched the film, he learned that Clark had died by suicide, making him want to write an album of songs about mortality. He then reached out to a dream list of singers and asked them to write their own melody and lyrics with just a track title and the music.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can sing a little, and I do sing on some of the tracks, and I\u2019ve written some of the singing parts, too, but I\u2019ve always preferred the art of collaboration,\u201d Marshall said in a statement. \u201cI guess that\u2019s [from] being in bands your whole life. So I had this daft \u2018wish list\u2019 of vocalists I\u2019d always loved, which I passed to my manager, along with some early demos. \u2026 To my surprise, nearly all of them said yes, and it was an enthusiastic yes too. I was blown away \u2014 I still am \u2014 to be working with some of my musical heroes\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the past few years, Gahan has kept busy with extracurricular activities. He was the sole guest on the last record by Soulsavers, Angels & Ghosts<\/a><\/em>, and he teamed with Null and Void<\/a>, a project by Depeche Mode songwriter Kurt Uenala, and Goldfrapp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2015, when he was working with Soulsavers, Gahan spelled out what he gets out of a project like that that he didn\u2019t from Depeche Mode in an interview with Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI get a lot out of it,\u201d he said. \u201cI like working in different ways and developing ideas with somebody that\u2019s willing to take some risks. I bring these experiences back to Depeche Mode. \u2026 The stuff I\u2019m writing now, I think, is going to end up on a future Depeche record \u2014 it just feels like that \u2014 and I wouldn\u2019t have been able to do it if I didn\u2019t do this Soulsavers record.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan, who is no stranger to collaborative projects, has joined up with a new collective called Humanist for a moody new song called \u201cShock Collar.\u201d In the video, he pleads that he \u201cnever lied,\u201d in his signature croon, singing amid swirling guitars and electro drums as strobes flash red and blue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 18:20:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}