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Synth-pop overlord Gary Numan returns with dark concept album imagining humanity as a planet-destroying virus.
Now resident in California, Gary Numan has had the opportunity to see the devastating ramifications of climate change at first hand. The English synth-pop pioneer, who has influenced the likes of Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode, based his last album, 2017’s Savage: Songs From a Broken World, around the idea of a post-apocalyptic dystopia brought about by humanity’s neglect of the planet, and his forthcoming album, Intruder, is billed as a companion piece, in which Numan sings from the perspective of a disillusioned and battered but defiant Earth, fighting for its very existence.
“The planet sees us as its children now grown into callous selfishness, with a total disregard for its wellbeing,” Numan explains. “It feels betrayed, hurt, and ravaged. Disillusioned and heartbroken it is now fighting back. Essentially, it considers humankind to be a virus attacking the planet. Climate change is the undeniable sign of the Earth saying enough is enough, and finally doing what it needs to do to get rid of us, and explaining why it feels it has to do it.”
Numan has now shared the album’s title track, which mixes his familiar industrial rock sound with an eerie, sinister, disoriented feel.
“Intruder looks at climate change from the planet’s point of view,” says Numan. ‘If Earth could speak, and feel things the way we do, what would it say? How would it feel? The songs, for the most part, attempt to be that voice, or at least try to express what I believe the earth must feel at the moment.”
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- Gary Numan - Telekon + Inner - UK - vinyl LP - £10.00, $12.50, €12.10 (New Item) (arrived 19-Dec-2024 18:00)on January 2, 2025 at 6:11 am
GARY NUMAN Telekon (1980 UK 10-track vinyl LP, including the single This Wreckage, hype stickered picture sleeve with lyric inner. The sleeve is Excellent with some minor edge and shelfwear & the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with just a little cosmetic wear BEGA19)
- Gary Numan - Pure - Sample + 7" - Purple - US - vinyl LP - Promo - £295.00, $368.75, €356.95 (New Item) (arrived 10-Dec-2024 17:36)on January 2, 2025 at 6:11 am
GARY NUMAN Pure (Very rare 2007 'Sample' issue of the Limited Edition 9-track LP pressed on Purple Vinyl, plus a bonus 2-track 7" single pressed on Dayglo Yellow Vinyl. Three separate coloured editions of this album were issued by Out of the Blue Publications, each limited to just 100 copies each and all including a 7" single, housed in a numbered picture sleeve (numbered twice, for the LP & 7") with A4sizedlyric insert. This example has a 'Sample' sticker attached to the back and the LP label, whilst the 7" is hand written sample, hand numbered 94/100. The cover displays minimal wear and the vinyl remains in a 'near mint' condition OTBLP1)
- Gary Numan - Living Ornaments '79 - Israeli - vinyl LP - £30.00, $37.50, €36.30 (Back In Stock) (arrived 29-Nov-2024 18:00)on January 2, 2025 at 6:11 am
GARY NUMAN Living Ornaments '79 (1981 Israeli 9-track vinyl LP, featuring a collection of live tracks recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon in September 1979, housed in a matt picture sleeve with Hebrew on the back and labels. The cover has some minor general wear and has a small split on the bottom edge, with a small amount of writing on the front. Textured labels are clean and the vinyl is Excellent with just a few light cosmetic surface scuffs. The first copy of this hard to find pressing we have ever seen)
- Gary Numan - Warriors - Australian - vinyl LP - £30.00, $37.50, €36.30 (Back In Stock) (arrived 29-Nov-2024 18:00)on January 2, 2025 at 6:11 am
GARY NUMAN Warriors (1983 Australian 9-track vinyl LP, housed in a matt picture sleeve with lyric printed inner. The cover displays some minor wear with some ringwear and some light edge scuffing, the inner has little signs of age with no splits or rips, and the vinyl has just a few light surface scuffs with very little signs of play, overall an Excellent example and the first we have ever seen)
- Gary Numan - Cars E Reg - White Label - UK - 12" vinyl - Promo - £195.00, $243.75, €235.95 (Back In Stock) (arrived 29-Nov-2024 18:00)on January 2, 2025 at 6:11 am
GARY NUMAN Cars E Reg (Rare 1987 UK 4-track white label vinyl 12" test pressing with 'BEG 199 (T)· A-1' & 'BEG 199 (T)·B-1' hand scratched matrices along with 'Damont'. Featuring the Extended 'E' Reg Model Mix [by Zeus B. Held], also includingAre 'Friends' Electric?, We Are Glass and the US version of I Die: You Die. This has plain white labels with hand annotated labels, housed in a plain die-cut paper sleeve. The vinyl has just a couple of light cosmetic surface marks otherwiseremains in a really nice condition)
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