GARY NUMAN

Intruder (Indie Exclusive Red 2LP Set)

Intruder is Numan’s 18th solo studio album and follows 2017’s Savage: Songs From A Broken World. Hitting No.2 in the UK Top 40 album charts, Savage became his highest charting set in almost forty years. That commercial success was complemented with wide-reaching critical acclaim from Mojo, The Quietus, Rolling Stone and more.

Whereas Savage depicted earth as a barren wasteland in which humanity and culture had been largely crushed by the effects of global warming, Intruder presents a fresh but complementary narrative. It’s a philosophical examination of a potential future apocalypse: the planet can only survive by purging its inhabitants.

Numan explains: “‘Intruder’ looks at climate change from the planet’s point of view. 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. The planet sees us as its children now grown into callous selfishness, with a total disregard for it’s well being. It feels betrayed, hurt and ravaged. Disillusioned and heartbroken it is now fighting back. Essentially, it considers human kind 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.”

TRACK LISTING

LP1
SIDE A
1. Betrayed
2. The Gift
3. I Am Screaming
4. Intruder

SIDE B
1. Is This World Not Enough
2. A Black Sun
3. The Chosen

LP2
SIDE A
1. And It Breaks Me Again
2. Saints and Liars
3. Now and Forever

SIDE B
1. The End of Dragons
2. When You Fall
3. The End of Dragons (Alt)