{"id":26141,"date":"2017-07-07T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26141"},"modified":"2017-08-19T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T12:53:42","slug":"gary-numan-announces-new-album-savage-songs-broken-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26141","title":{"rendered":"Gary Numan announces new album ‘Savage (Songs From A Broken World)’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SavageGary Numan will release his 22nd album ‘Savage (Songs From A Broken World)<\/a>‘\u00a0<\/em>on September 15. ‘Savage (Songs From A Broken World)’\u00a0is an album with a narrative set in an apocalyptic, post-global warming Earth in the not-too-distant future. There’s no technology left and most of the planet has turned to a desolate desert wasteland. Food is scarce, water even more so, and human kindness and decency are just a dim and distant memory. Western and Eastern cultures have merged, more because of the need to simply survive than any feelings of greater tolerance or understanding. It’s a harsh, savage environment, as are the survivors who still roam across it.<\/p>\n

While Numan was writing the record, Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. To Numan, it made sense to make him and his climate decisions the catalyst for the apocalypse theme of the album.<\/p>\n

“The songs are about the things that people do in such a harsh and terrifying environment,”<\/em> explains Numan. “It’s about a desperate need to survive and they do awful things in order to do so, and some are haunted by what they’ve done. That desire to be forgiven, along with some discovered remnants of an old religious book, ultimately encourages religion to resurface, and it really goes downhill from there.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The album was produced by long-term collaborator\u00a0Ade Fenton, with recording sessions split between Numan’s own studio in LA, and in the UK. Numan and Fenton’s creative connection goes back to 2006’s\u00a0‘Jagged<\/a>‘. “Ade is not only extremely creative but ridiculously hard working, even in difficult circumstances,”<\/em> says Numan. “It’s easy to discuss alternative ideas with him; he’s not precious about things and is always looking to make the music better, even if that means, on very rare occasions, undoing his own work and starting again.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

To go along with the album announcement, Numan has released the first single,My Name Is Ruin,<\/em> lifted from the album.\u00a0It’s a menacing industrial march in which the unrelenting mechanized intensity is countered by the humanity of its sweet, swirling backing vocals that exude a palpable Egyptian influence. Take a listen via YouTube below.<\/p>\n