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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: HMV1921 - Red & Black Splatter - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £84.99, $107.94, €101.99 (Back In Stock) (arrived 19-Nov-2024 12:53)on November 21, 2024 at 4:31 pm
GARY NUMAN Telekon (2023 UK/EU limited edition 18-track double album 2-LP reissue of his 1980 second solo studio album, released as part of HMV's exclusive '1921 Edition' Series, pressed on Red & Black Splattered Vinyl; including the singles We Are Glass, I Die: You Die and This Wreckage. The gatefold picture sleeve [with the custom printed series obi] does display a little shelfwear creasing to the bottom edge but remains factory sealed) **Limited to 500 Copies Only**
- Gary Numan - Berserker Tour '84 - UK - tour programme - £30.00, $38.10, €36.00 (New Item) (arrived 16-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 21, 2024 at 4:31 pm
GARY NUMAN Berserker Tour '84 (Rare 1984 18-page UK tour programme, loaded with lots of biographical details about Gary and the band, tour dates and loaded wih great photographs. The cover displays just a little light age wear with the pages inside nice and clean. A really nice condition, the first we have seen in almost twenty five years)
- Gary Numan - This Is Love + Flexi - Autographed - UK - 12" vinyl - £50.00, $63.50, €60.00 (Back In Stock) (arrived 13-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 21, 2024 at 4:31 pm
GARY NUMAN This Is Love (Autographed 1986 UK 12" vinyl single, also featuring Survival with bonus interview 7" flexi disc, housed in a picture sleeve which clearly states 'Free Interview Flexi Disc'. Both sleeve and vinyl are Excellent.This copy has been boldly signed on the front by Gary in a silver pen)
- Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle - Israeli - vinyl LP - £30.00, $38.10, €36.00 (Back In Stock) (arrived 13-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 21, 2024 at 4:31 pm
GARY NUMAN The Pleasure Principle (1979 Israeli issue 9-track vinyl LP on the Wea International label, his debut solo studio album, including the singles Cars and Complex, housed in a picture sleeve with lyric insert. The cover is graded Very Good, with some minor wear mostly to the edges and a small split at the bottom, the insert also displays some minor wear with some nicks along the edges. The labels have some wear and some paper loss around the edges, and the vinyl is Excellent with a few light surface scuffs and hairlines. Although not mint, a really nice copy and the first we have ever seen!)
- Gary Numan - Telekon - Japanese - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.75, €30.00 (Back In Stock) (arrived 13-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 21, 2024 at 4:31 pm
GARY NUMAN Telekon (1980 Japanese 10-track vinyl LP, featuring This Wreckage and I Dream Of Wires, housed in a picture sleeve with 4-page biography/lyric insert. The cover displays some mild wear mostly to the edges and the vinyl and minimal signs of play P-10911A)
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