Hourglass (Dave Gahan album)

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Hourglass
Dave gahan hourglass.jpg
Studio album by Dave Gahan
Released 22 October 2007 (2007-10-22)
Recorded Spring 2007
Genre Industrial rock, alternative rock, synthpop
Length 48:38
Label Mute – STUMM 288
Virgin – 50872
Producer Dave Gahan, Andrew Phillpott, Christian Eigner
Dave Gahan chronology
Paper Monsters
(2003)Paper Monsters2003		 Hourglass
(2007)		 The Light the Dead See
(2012)The Light the Dead See2012
Singles from Hourglass
  1. "Kingdom"
    Released: 8 October 2007
  2. "Saw Something / Deeper and Deeper"
    Released: 14 January 2008
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[1]
The A.V. Club (B-)[2]
BBC (Positive)[3]
CDNOW 4/5 stars[4]
The Guardian 4/5 stars[5]
Now Magazine 2/5 stars[6]
Pitchfork Media (5.7/10)[7]
PopMatters 6/10 stars[8]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[9]
Uncut 3/5 stars[10]

Hourglass is the second solo album by Depeche Mode's singer Dave Gahan. It was released by Mute Records on 22 October 2007 in Europe, and received generally favourable reviews. Most critics complimented its electronica sound, while some criticised it for sounding too similar to Depeche Mode.[11]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Dave Gahan, Andrew Phillpott and Christian Eigner.

  1. "Saw Something" – 5:14
  2. "Kingdom" – 4:34
  3. "Deeper and Deeper" – 4:34
  4. "21 Days" – 4:35
  5. "Miracles" – 4:38
  6. "Use You" – 4:48
  7. "Insoluble" – 4:57
  8. "Endless" – 5:47
  9. "A Little Lie" – 4:53
  10. "Down" – 4:34

Bonus tracks

All bonus tracks appear on the iTunes edition of Hourglass.

  1. "Kingdom" (Digitalism Remix) – 5:36
  2. "Deeper and Deeper" (SHRUBBN!! Dub) – 4:43
  3. "Use You" (K10K Remix) – 6:03

DVD

  1. "Hourglass – A Short Film" – 17:52
  2. "Kingdom" (promotional video) – 4:33
  3. "Hourglass – The Studio Sessions" – 20:03
    1. "Saw Something"
    2. "Miracles"
    3. "Kingdom"
    4. "A Little Lie"
  4. "Endless from Hourglass. The Studio Sessions" – 3:44

Personnel

The following people contributed to Hourglass:[12]

Formats

These are the formats of major album releases of Hourglass.

Release format Country Label(s) Cat. no. Release date
Standard CD[13] Europe Mute CD STUMM 288 22 October 2007
Standard CD[13] North America Virgin 5099950872121 23 October 2007
Standard CD[14] Japan Toshiba, EMI TOCP-66717 October 2007
Limited CD+DVD[13] Europe Mute LCD STUMM 288 22 October 2007
Limited CD+DVD[13] North America Virgin 5099950872329 23 October 2007
Vinyl + Bonus CD[13] Europe Mute STUMM 288 22 October 2007
Vinyl + Bonus CD[13] North America Virgin 5099950872213 23 October 2007

Charts and Certifications

Charts (2007) Peak
position[15]
Canadian Albums Chart 80
French Albums Chart 18
German Albums Chart 2
Greek Albums Chart 12
Irish Albums Chart 73
Italian Albums Chart 8
Polish Albums Chart[16] 7
Swiss Albums Chart 5
UK Albums Chart 50
US Billboard 200 120
US Top Electronic Albums 1

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Poland (ZPAV)[17] Gold 10,000

xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

  1. ↑ Jeffries, David. Hourglass at AllMusic
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  4. ↑ CDNOW review[dead link]
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  9. ↑ Rolling Stone review Archived 14 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Uncut review Archived 5 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ "Dave Gahan: Hourglass (2007): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
  12. ↑ "Hourglass > Credits. Allmusic. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 "Releases". DaveGahan.com. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
  14. ↑ "Dave Gahan 'Hourglass' Japanese CD album (TOCP-66717)". Eil.com. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
  15. ↑ "Hourglass World Charts". aCharts.us. Retrieved 1 November 2007.
  16. ↑ OLiS – Polish Albums Chart
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

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