A special word of thanks here to Joseph Cultice for taking such extraordinary photos in a genuinely harsh environment. I’m very grateful to his skill and enthusiasm in getting the visual side together. a b Monger, James. "Savage (Songs from a Broken World), Gary Numan". AllMusic.com. AllMusic . Retrieved 24 November 2017. Irish Albums Chart: 15 September 2017". Irish Recorded Music Association . Retrieved 23 September 2017.

Offiziellecharts.de – Gary Numan – Savage (Songs From A Broken World)" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 22 September 2017.

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In Conversation: Gary Numan Embodies an Angry and Disillusioned Planet Earth on "Intruder" ". FLOOD . Retrieved 24 April 2022. His wife also helped him recognise where his music had gone wrong. “I’d come to think of myself as the weak link in my albums,” he explains. “I was bringing in guitar players and other people to do the vocals. She said, ‘You may not be the best keyboard player or guitarist in the world, but you have a sound that people love.’ She was right.”

Of great confidence... My first new Gary Numan album at the time of release for thirty seven years. Yes that's 37 years, since Telekon which was released in 1980. Savage: 'Songs From A Broken World’ was released on September 15th 2017 and is Gary's 22nd studio album. I’ve known Gary for many years and first became friends through a mutual friend of his wife, Gemma. I’d always had a love for dark, industrial electronic music, and just by chance was partying at Gary’s house when he was writing the album Jagged. I had the feeling with Splinter that my work with Ade had peaked. It was the third album we’d done together and it had gone really well. People were saying Splinter was the best album I’d ever made, so I thought we probably wouldn’t be able to do a better one as a team. For a while I thought about doing it all on my own, because I used to, but that wasn’t working out.Curley, John. " "Intruder" is one of Gary Numan's most interesting albums". Goldmine Magazine: Record Collector & Music Memorabilia . Retrieved 25 April 2022. This is an album that rewards repeated listens. It holds together as a unit, a collection of apocalyptic songs presaging a possible, an all too possible these days, future for humanity. I’d also like to thank Ade Fenton who, as always, is doing an absolutely remarkable job on the production and turning my rough ideas into music to be proud of. Intruder is the nineteenth studio album by English musician Gary Numan, released on 21 May 2021 by BMG and The End. It entered UK Albums Chart at number two, on 28 May 2021. [1] Album concept [ edit ]

In his first band, at school, he turned up at rehearsals one day to discover somebody else singing. “Then every single person in or around the band stopped talking to me or walked away,” he remembers. “I’d always tried to be friendly so I couldn’t understand it. Finally, one of their girlfriends said: ‘No one wants to know you any more.’ It was traumatic, but you accept that there’s something wrong with you, that you try to be friendly but are inherently unlikable, and so you become reclusive. Then you write songs about that.” it's hard to talk about a Gary Numan release in 2017 and use words like 'relevant' or 'important'. Like virtually all artists nowadays who had their salad days pre-2000, Numan is oft cited as a pioneer or influence, but it's doubtful that his audience has expanded much as he inches toward his 60th birthday. He has a fanbase that has either stayed with him from the beginning or joined after his stylistic and career re-invention as Trent Reznor's cool uncle in the mid-90s. Numan's transition to Electro-Industrial seemed natural enough considering the android coldness of his personae and his dystopian worldview. And during that time when Nine Inch Nails and the like were enjoying some popularity, it allowed him to expand his market beyond those clinging to the "Replicas/Pleasure Principle/Telekon"-era. Ultratop.be – Gary Numan – Savage (Songs From A Broken World)" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 September 2017.

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You accept you are inherently unlikable’ … Numan struggled with anxiety. Photograph: Matt Frost/Sky UK

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. a b Simpson, David (14 September 2017). "Gary Numan: Savage (Songs from a Broken World) review – pop gleams amid the dystopian gloom". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 November 2017. Numan has since “learned how to be a famous person”, but at 23, with longstanding issues over social interactions, the constant interview requests, intrusion outside his house and snarky music press coverage (“with an unnecessary level of animosity”) were unbearable. Then he received death threats. “I felt like I was being pushed towards the edge of a cliff,” he says, flailing his arms as if to illustrate the feeling of losing balance. “And I didn’t want to fall off.” Lyrically, the songs paint a picture of a dystopian world where climate change has destroyed the world and the only remaining humans are adapted survivors. When Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Accord, Gary thought of this as a “tipping point … where the Earth moves into an unstoppable phase, and we really cannot put the brakes on global warming. And it happens. And we end up with this desolated planet and all the horrors that are gonna come with that.” (August, 2017 Interview with BBC’s “The Arts”)Ultratop.be – Gary Numan – Savage (Songs From A Broken World)" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 23 September 2017. When the world comes apart" is a line from the 1994 Sacrifice song "Magic", and "Mercy" (appearing on the album proper) was an early demo title during the 2006 Jagged sessions, which would eventually become "We Are the Lost" from Dead Son Rising. [ citation needed] With Fenton as producer on Numan’s 18th studio album Jagged (2006), the duo went on to forge an increasingly successful alliance, collaborating on Fenton’s own Artificial Perfect album and critically acclaimed releases from Numan such as Dead Son Rising and Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind), his first album to reach the UK Top 20 in over 30 years. As you may have seen the new UK tour for the forthcoming Savage album has just been announced. Shows in Europe will be announced very soon and a North American tour will be confirmed, hopefully, in the next few weeks. I’m also looking at many other places around the world so, if things come together as I hope, I will be able to add a constant string of shows around the world in the coming months. I can’t deny that I am very excited and optimistic about the next twelve months and what could happen with this album. The album was produced by long-term collaborator Ade Fenton, with recording sessions split between Numan’s own studio in LA, and in the UK.