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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 + 7" & Merch Insert - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 27-Apr-2024 09:39)on May 2, 2024 at 1:57 pm
GARY NUMAN Telekon (Limited edition 1980 UK 10-track LP on regular black vinyl, housed in a custom hype stickered picture sleeve with bonus vinyl 7" featuring Remember I Was Vapour & On Broadway. Also includes the lyric inner & merchandise insert. The sleeve shows just a little minor scuffing & the vinyl remains Excellent with light signs of play BEGA19)
- Gary Numan - I, Assassin - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.00, €14.04 (New Item) (arrived 09-Apr-2024 11:09)on May 2, 2024 at 1:57 pm
GARY NUMAN I, Assassin (1982 UK 8-track LP, complete with illustrated lyric inner and merchandise insert, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear with a bit of edge scuffing and the vinyl remains in excellent condition withfew signs of play BEGA40)
- Gary Numan - Tell Tales + Slv - UK - vinyl LP - £18.00, $22.50, €21.06 (New Item) (arrived 09-Apr-2024 09:35)on May 2, 2024 at 1:57 pm
GARY NUMAN Tell Tales (1987 UK limited edition interview Picture Disc LP, part of a series of albums which contain rare and spontaneous interviews with the stars. These interviews are exclusive to this release and have not been heard byanyone apart from the interviewer prior to release; complete with die cut company sleeve GN2024)
- Gary Numan - Miracles - White Vinyl - UK - 12" vinyl - £12.00, $15.00, €14.04 (New Item) (arrived 09-Apr-2024 09:41)on May 2, 2024 at 1:57 pm
GARY NUMAN Miracles (1985 UK limited edition 12" single pressed on White Vinyl, also including The Fear, housed in a glossy picture sleeve. The sleeve displays light wear and the vinyl looks barely played NUM13)
- Gary Numan - The Live EP - Blue Vinyl - UK - 12" vinyl - £12.00, $15.00, €14.04 (New Item) (arrived 09-Apr-2024 09:47)on May 2, 2024 at 1:57 pm
GARY NUMAN The Live EP (1985 UK limited edition 4-track 12" EP pressed on Blue Vinyl, featuring Are Friends Electric?, Cars, Berserker and We Are Glass, all recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon in December 1984. The glossy picture sleeve displays just a little light wear, whilst the vinyl shows barely any play NUM7)
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