Dave Gahan is the newest huge identify performer so as to add his voice and guitar to The Gun Membership chief Jeffrey Lee Pierce‘s musical canon.

The Depeche Mode frontman collaborates with Brighton-based singer- songwriter Suzie Stapleton on the brand new single from the lengthy working Jeffrey Lee Pierce Periods Mission.

Taken from the fourth quantity within the collection – This Job has Overwhelmed Us – the one took place after each artists unbeknownst to one another started engaged on recent covers of Mom Of Earth.

Australian-born Stapleton was tinkering with a piano-driven model of the track, from The Gun Membership’s Miami album, and invited Gahan to contribute.

“He was engaged on the Soulsavers covers document Imposter and had been enjoying round along with his personal model of Mom of Earth, which they didn’t find yourself recording,” Stapleton explains.

“So I confirmed him my model, and he agreed to participate – It was very serendipitous.”

Pierce launched seven extremely influential studio albums with The Gun Membership and three solo works, earlier than his loss of life in 1996, aged simply 37, after problems from heroin habit, alcoholism and HIV.

Drawn from The Gun Membership’s second album, Mom of Earth holds a particular poignance as Pierce eerily addresses his urge for food for self-destruction.

Whereas the Gun Membership’s unique is a unclean Johnny Money-esque Western rumble, the brand new model, that includes violin from James Johnston of Gallon Drunk, comes over like a darkish people story.

Gahan’s sombre baritone faucets into the elegaic really feel of the track, as Johnston’s bandmate Ian White (drums) and Gavin Jay, of Jim Jones Assessment (bass), present delicate, unshowy assist.

It’s a becoming addition to the GLP Mission collection, based by Pierce collaborator Cypress Grove.

The primary quantity We Are Solely Riders got here 12 years after Pierce’s loss of life and was adopted by The Journey Is Lengthy (2012) and Axels and Sockets (2014).

Moreover Gahan, The Job Has Overwhelmed Us, options famous Pierce pals and co-conspirators, together with Nick Cave, Debbie Harry. Mark Lanegan, Mark Stewart and Lydia Lunch.

A decade within the making, the album is scheduled for launch on September 29 (2023) through Glitterhouse Data.

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