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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 - Fan Club Pack - UK - memorabilia - £150.00, $193.50, €178.50 (New Item) (arrived 23-Jul-2024 14:11)on July 26, 2024 at 10:12 pm
GARY NUMAN Fan Club Pack (Rare original 1981 UK fan club back, comprising of a 28-page '1981' booklet loaded with photographs, lyrics and more, accompanied by nineteen colour photographs, a metal pin badge and small envelope holding a fan club membership card, merchandise insert with information slip attached, housed in a custom card fold, with everthing featuring a 'Telekon' theme. This pack remains in a stunning condition with minimal signs of age wear)
- Gary Numan - Metal Rhythm - UK - picture disc LP - £40.00, $51.60, €47.60 (New Item) (arrived 18-Jul-2024 14:08)on July 26, 2024 at 10:12 pm
GARY NUMAN Metal Rhythm (1988 UK limited editon 10-track Picture Disc LP, his ninth solo studio album including This Is Emotion, Voix & Respect, housed in a clear PVC sleeve ILPPD035)
- Gary Numan - I Can't Stop + Flexi - UK - 10" vinyl - £8.00, $10.32, €9.52 (New Item) (arrived 18-Jul-2024 12:40)on July 26, 2024 at 10:12 pm
GARY NUMAN I Can't Stop (1986 UK limited edition 10" single including the Club Mix of the title track and Faces, complete with Bonus 7" Flexi-Disc which contains an introduction by Gary to short samples of Steve Braun's singles, picture sleeve NUDJ17)
- Gary Numan - Call Out The Dogs - UK - 12" vinyl - £8.00, $10.32, €9.52 (New Item) (arrived 18-Jul-2024 12:45)on July 26, 2024 at 10:12 pm
GARY NUMAN Call Out The Dogs (1985 UK 3-track 12" single featuring the 6:42 Version plus No Shelter & This Ship Comes Apart, picture sleeve with 'The Fury' UK Tour dates on the back. The cover shows a little creasing & the vinyl looks barely played NUM11)
- Gary Numan - The Plan - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $32.25, €29.75 (New Item) (arrived 18-Jul-2024 12:56)on July 26, 2024 at 10:12 pm
GARY NUMAN The Plan (1984 UK 12-track LP featuring a great collection of early Tubeway Army demos, many previously unreleased. The picture sleeve is free of wear & the vinyl is Excellent and shows few signs of play BEGA55)
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