Documenting the sleazy world of rock, Dirty Sticky floors is a heady mix of crashing guitars, electronica and Gahan's persuasive voice telling us it really wasn't all glamour on the road. "I've painted a face where I burnt the floor / Now the face has become my devil's door / Laying in the back room / On my dirty sticky floor" - just another day on the job, then.

This isn't the best track from the new album, but it's rocking good fun all the same: Gahan "giving vent to the sleazy alter-ego he half jokingly calls Evil Dave". Those Essex boys - what are they like...