Trivia / Hourglass

• Breakaway Pop Hit: "Saw Something" is used in the trailer for a film from 2009 called Obsessed and for another film called Claustrum.
• B-Team Sequel: Dave works with Andrew Phillpott and Christian Eigner, his co-writers for Playing the Angel and Sounds of the Universe, to write and produce the album.
• Creator's Oddball: Obviously, while it still retains the Alternative Dance sound of Depeche Mode, Hourglass as a whole has a dirty, inquisitive style to it that makes it sound like nothing else out of the band's prior or following work, though it's still the same general basis of being darker and sexier New Wave Music as all Depeche Mode releases have.
• Missing Episode:
  • The single releases of "Kingdom" and "Saw Something", and therefore the B-sides "Tomorrow" and "Love Will Love (Das Shadow's Rewerk)" were only released in regulation, meaning that the record label eventually stopped producing copies. This means that copies of the aforementioned singles are essentially impossible to find, and so are the B-sides, especially on streaming services.
  • Spinner no longer exists, but since there was a live promotional recording from November 2007 revolving around Hourglass posted on that promotional label, that means the "Live at Spinner Studio" sessions aren't accessible and pretty much don't exist either, aside from stray video rips that have been reuploaded; fans of the main group don't even know that Dave recorded something at Spinner Studio at all, because most don't even know Spinner exists in the first place and that Depeche Mode made an agreement with it.
• Refitted for Sequel: In a Spiritual Successor context. Most of Dave's discarded songs for Playing the Angel were used as inspiration for the songs written to be released on Hourglass.

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