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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- Gary Numan - Photograph (The Best Of) - Withdrawn - German - vinyl LP - £195.00, $247.65, €228.15 (Back In Stock) (arrived 05-Mar-2024 10:22)on March 19, 2024 at 4:35 am
GARY NUMAN Photograph (Rare 1981 German-only 10-track LP compilation, which was withdrawn after Gary thought it was too early for a 'best of' compilation, housed in a unique glossy gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve is Excellent with just a few faint marks with age & the vinyl too grades Excellent with some light cosmetic surface marks INT146.606)
- Gary Numan - Exhibition - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £25.00, $31.75, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 15-Feb-2024 17:06)on March 19, 2024 at 4:35 am
GARY NUMAN Exhibition (1987 UK Beggars Banquet 25-track double vinyl LP compilation featuring tracks from his early years of 1978 with Tubeway Army to the songs from the Warriors album of 1983. Gatefold picture sleeve with picture inners and 8-page glossy colour booklet. The sleeve shows a couple of marks & the vinyl show some light cosmetic hairlines and few signs of play BEGA88)
- Gary Numan - White Boys And Heroes - UK - 12" vinyl - £10.00, $12.70, €11.70 (New Item) (arrived 01-Feb-2024 09:23)on March 19, 2024 at 4:35 am
GARY NUMAN White Boys And Heroes (1982 UK 3-track 12" vinyl single, also including War Games and Glitter & Ash, issued in the glossy picture sleeve BEG81T)
- Gary Numan - Are 'Friends' Electric? / Down In The Park - UK - 7" picture disc - £25.00, $31.75, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 02-Feb-2024 10:40)on March 19, 2024 at 4:35 am
GARY NUMAN & TUBEWAY ARMY Are 'Friends' Electric? / Down In The Park (2008 UK limited edition Double A Side 7" Picture Disc single, custom stickered clear PVC sleeve GNS2008)
- Gary Numan - New Man - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.05, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 06-Feb-2024 09:17)on March 19, 2024 at 4:35 am
GARY NUMAN New Man Numan - The Best Of Gary Numan (1983 UK 14-track 'Greatest Hits' compilation LP, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little shelfwear/creasing & a small area of paper loss from a price sticker. The vinyl remains in Excellent condition with few signs of play TVA7)
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