Soulsavers is an English-American production and remix team composed ofRich Machin and Ian Glover. The Soulsavers' downtempo electronica sound incorporates influences of rock, gospel, soul, and country. To date, the duo has released six albums: Tough Guys Don't Dance in 2003, It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land in 2007, Broken in 2009, The Light the Dead See in 2012 and Angels & Ghosts in 2015. Their last studio album, Kubrick, was released in 2015.
History
Collaboration with Josh Heinden: ''Tough Guys Don't Dance (2000-2005)''
After a series of successful EP releases in 2000-2002, in 2003 they recorded their first studio album Tough Guys Don't Dance. The vocalist and co-author of three of the nine songs was Josh Haden - bassist and vocalist for Spain. The release was not successful either commercially or by music critics. After the release of the EP "Closer" in 2004, the musicians were engaged in mixing tracks for other artists.
Collaboration with Mark Lanegan: ''It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land and Broken (2006-2009)''
In 2006, collaboration begins with American singer, musician and songwriter - Mark Lanegan. On It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land album, his vocals are featured in eight of the eleven songs, and he is also featured as co-author of five songs. In addition, the album has a remake of Lanegan’s song "Kingdoms of Rain", originally released on his 1994 album, Whiskey for the Holy Ghost. Soulsavers recorded an album in England and Lanegan completed his vocals in Los Angeles. On the next Broken album, released in 2009, Lanegan’s vocals are featured in nine out of thirteen songs, and he co-authored eight songs. Broken, was released on 17 August 2009. Other prominent musicians such as Mike Patton, Jason Pierce, Richard Hawley, and Gibby Haynes also feature on the album. The non-album single "Sunrise," a song written by Lanegan and sung by Will Oldham, preceded the album release on 3 August 2009. The B-side is a cover of Palace Brothers' "You Will Miss Me When I Burn," a song written by Oldham and sung by Lanegan, that is also featured on the Broken album. The pair have also worked as film score composers, such as on produced by the Guerrilla News Network. Their song "Revival" was featured on the 22 November 2007 episode of Grey's Anatomy, titled "Crash Into Me" part 1. The song was also featured on the 10 December episode of Friday Night Lights, titled "Giving Tree". It is also featured in the snowboarding movie That's It, That's All. Revival also featured in the trailer of the 2011 film Machine Gun Preacher. "Kingdoms of Rain" featured in the Lie to Me episode "Truth or Consequences," which aired on 5 October 2009. They supported Depeche Mode during the European leg of their Tour of the Universe in late 2009.
Collaboration with Dave Gahan: ''The Light the Dead See and Angels & Ghosts (2010-2015)''
In October - December 2009, Soulsavers supported Depeche Mode during a tour in support of their album Sounds of the Universe. The idea of collaboration between band members and Depeche Mode vocalist Dave Gahan was embodied in the 2012 album The Light the Dead See, consisting of ten songs and two instrumental tracks. Dave wrote lyrics to all the songs on the album and performed lead vocals for them. Information appeared on Twitter at the beginning of May 2013 stating that Soulsavers had started to work on material for their up-and-coming fifth studio album. On 14 January 2014 this information was confirmed on a Depeche Mode's fan website, where it was announced that the vocals for this new material would again be provided by Dave Gahan. According to Gahan, the new Soulsavers album will be released in spring 2015. Almost one year later an announcement appeared on the German fans' website depechemode.de. It confirmed that Rich Machin, Ian Glover and Dave Gahan were going to start working in the studio mid-January, with the new album being released towards the end of 2015. As a result, the disc was released in October 2015 under the name Angels & Ghosts and in its support the musicians released two singles - "All this and nothing" and "Shine". In addition, a mini-tour was organized in support of the new album, in which songs from the current album, The Light the Dead See were performed as well as some Depeche Mode's and the vocalist’s solo songs in encore. Shortly after a series of concerts in support of the album Angels & Ghosts, the Machin and Glover had released the album Kubrick consisting of completely instrumental eight tracks. After that the collective suspended its activities. At the start of 2020, Dave Gahan was involved with North East of England musician, Rob Marshall's Humanist project, guesting vocals on the track, "Shock Collar". In a two part interview on Radio 6 in February 2020 relating to Humanist, Gahan also stated that he would be working with Soulsavers again, with a view to releasing an album by the end of 2020. He didn't suggest that he was involved in any Depeche Mode work in this period.
