Savage (Songs from a Broken World)

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And It All Began With You’ follows, and is a gently meandering intro of planetary exploration – its melody so vivid against its backdrop. Oriental inspired strings and trum­pets linked with Gary Numan's gloomy voice stress this song's dysto­pi­an atmo­sphere.

Gary Numan: Savage (Songs from a Broken World) review – pop

The industrial-inflected sound Numan has explored since Sacrifice remains a bedrock, but "Bed Of Thorns" and "Pray For The Pain You Serve" realise the concept neatly, blending crunchy synth riffs and brooding choruses with fragments of Arabic melody. It’s worth noting — and Savage underscores this — that Numan’s songs have been covered and/or sampled by artists as diverse as Marilyn Manson, Afrika Bambaataa and Foo Fighters (the latter covering Numan’s classic pop gem “Down in the Park” in 1997). The widescreen synth vistas of excellent closing track 'Broken' sound like they were recorded to soundtrack a great retro-futuristic RPG in which the future of humanity hangs in the balance.

That song took a good amount of listens for it to grow on me, which is a common trait across the entirety of this album: This album took many listens for it to grow on me. There are some neat segments on 'And It All Began With You' and 'When The World Comes Apart' where our imagined descendants lament our generation's inability to combat climate change. The second track reminds me – espe­cially in the begin­ning – of a bal­lad-like ver­sion of Ofrah Haza's 'Im Nin'Alu'. 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. I’ve always loved step sequencers, and prefer the hardware ones because you can get more random stuff going.

Savage (Songs from a Broken World) by Gary Numan Savage (Songs from a Broken World) by Gary Numan

Savage (Songs from a Broken World) is the eighteenth solo studio album by English musician Gary Numan, released on 15 September 2017 by BMG and The End.

While Artrocker Magazine described Dead Son Rising as “one of the great dystopian rock albums of all time,” this latest effort sees the weight of goth-metallic guitars reduced in favour of hugely synthesized tapestry – and for fans of old, that’s not a bad thing. Numan's appropriation of Arabic musical patterns, textures and instruments can make for mildly uncomfortable listening at first, but on repeated plays these are the moments that really stand out.

Gary Numan on the making of ‘Savage (Songs Ade Fenton and Gary Numan on the making of ‘Savage (Songs

To quote Numan: "I have a new song 'Bed of Thorns' on the recently released Ghost in the Shell album. He’s also been a supporter of a variety of humanitarian causes, particularly concerning animal rights — a scan of his Twitter feed shows frequent retweets of PETA posts. I'd dare say, he's the only per­son in the world who could be able to turn a song like 'Shiny Happy People' ('R.

With cries for help, coupled with stark, yet honest observations of a futuristic vision; one that goes against the grain and ventures out of the comfort zone, and gives its acknowledgement to some very real threats to survival. The sound at the start of the track “It All Began With You” came from the Access Virus, but heavily processed. It’s funny how it came about, because Gary doesn’t get techno or dance music at all, so for him to even ask me in the first place was a real stab in the dark. The album debuted at number twenty on the UK Albums Chart on sales of 6,187 copies, becoming Numan's highest-charting album since 1983's Warriors.