Gary Numan - Savage (Songs from a Broken World)

His last album was great and this new single from the next one sounds deece too. Can't wait for the tour. I love Gary Numan.

01. Ghost Nation

02. Bed Of Thorns

03. My Name Is Ruin

04. The End Of Things

05. And It All Began With You

06. When The World Comes Apart

07. Mercy

08. What God Intended

09. If I Said

10. Pray For The Pain You Serve

11. Broken

12. Cold

Scheduled for release September 15^th, 2017

www.garynuman.com

I can't believe I spent $12 on this 2 years ago

The album cover (especially the faux-Arabic font with the cheesy bevel) is super LOL - I bet Numan himself did it...

The tracks would be a lot better without the cheesy strings

Really don't care for his newer stuff. :\ Great guy though, and his old albums were awesome.

Pretty decent record, though not nearly as good as Splinter. Needs less strings and choruses

Got a few deece tracks on it, Splinter is better but to have an album go in at number two this far into your career is a great achievement.

I'll stick with 1979's "Cars"

The album was interesting though, kind of reminds me of a more industrial David Bowie or something. 

Is it just me or does every hook on the album sound the same?

The Quietus:

Before we address the content of Gary Numan’s new record, we need to deal with that cover art. I understand that this is a concept album set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic version of the Middle-East, where eastern and western cultures have mixed and Numan himself is some sort of strange hybrid between Mad Max and John The Baptist.

But, at the end of the day, it’s him dressed up in what looks suspiciously like a traditional Bedouin garb next to the word ‘Savage’ spelled out in faux-Arabic letters. Not only is this pretty offensive on a cultural level, it’s also pretty offensive aesthetically. If there was a musical equivalent of the Razzies (which there should be), this album would clean up in the design categories.

Yer da joined Isis.

I've always enjoyed his work. He's like NIN (but with real song-writing talent) and his style has influenced generations of artists. His first album was back in the late 70s or something. His style is all his own - but with many, many imitators.

That cover tho.

  On 9/23/2017 at 8:33 PM, fumi said:

The Quietus:

 

Before we address the content of Gary Numan’s new record, we need to deal with that cover art. I understand that this is a concept album set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic version of the Middle-East, where eastern and western cultures have mixed and Numan himself is some sort of strange hybrid between Mad Max and John The Baptist.

 

But, at the end of the day, it’s him dressed up in what looks suspiciously like a traditional Bedouin garb next to the word ‘Savage’ spelled out in faux-Arabic letters. Not only is this pretty offensive on a cultural level, it’s also pretty offensive aesthetically. If there was a musical equivalent of the Razzies (which there should be), this album would clean up in the design categories.

Going to see him in Oxford on Friday, another one ticked of the bucket list.

sounds like a popier version of trent reznor, also a bit too new age for my taste.

  On 9/25/2017 at 1:51 AM, fumi said:

I've always enjoyed his work. He's like NIN (but with real song-writing talent) and his style has influenced generations of artists. His first album was back in the late 70s or something. His style is all his own - but with many, many imitators.

That would be Tubeway Army, before he started recording as himself.

  On 9/25/2017 at 3:21 PM, fletcher said:

Going to see him in Oxford on Friday, another one ticked of the bucket list.

Me too mate, see you down the front.

I can't enjoy anything he's done after Telekon. everything up to and including that was amazing. since he started getting respek from newer generations of artists (e.g. Trent Reznor) in the late 90s and onwards, his stuff became a weird, parodic, completely un-self aware echo of those artists. I can't dig it.

fair play to him for commanding respect even today, though imo it's deserved most because of works like Replicas and The Pleasure Principle. Replicas gets regular play in ma hoose.

I Assasin is very good and Sacrifice is a decent bridge between his new and old stuff. I get your point but it's a sound I enjoy.