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It’s been only a brief moment since we last heard of influential new-waver Gary Numan. Earlier this year, the British keyboard songsmith lent his unmistakeable voice to the excellent Battles track “My Machines”. Now, he returns with a new LP for himself, Dead Son Rising.
From Consequence of Sound:

Due out October 24th, on his own website no less, Numan’s latest effort came to fruition from a series of demo tapes he had from other projects. “The original ideas behind these songs are now barely visible,” Numan explained in an issued press release. “In the last nine months, the*album has grown into another animal, something more experimental and fluid. It’s ended up being something I’m really very proud of.” He has no plans of taming this “animal”, either. In fact, he’ll follow up …Rising with another LP in 2012, titled Splinter.

To support the current record, however, Numan has dates scheduled across the UK this month and again in December, when he’ll play ATP Festival. No word on whether or not he’ll make his way overseas, but we’ll keep you updated. In the meantime, check out the tracklist for Dead Son Rising below, which features song titles that take cues from a science-fiction saga Numan is currently writing. What a creative technophile, huh?

Dead Son Rising Tracklist:
01. Resurrection
02. Big Noise Transmission
03. Dead Sun Rising
04. When The Sky Bleeds, He Will Come
05. For The Rest Of My Life
06. Not The Love We Dream Of
07. The Fall
08. We Are The Lost
09. For The Rest Of My Life (Reprise)
10. Into Battle
11. Not The Love We Dream Of (Piano version)

islandclaws

I won't even begin to claim I'm a well-versed Numan fan, but I really liked Jagged. So if this is kinda similar I'm sure I'll like it.

Numanoid

Numanoid reporting!

I'm digging the first single:
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Though I'm starting to tire a bit of the pseudo-blasphemous religious angle his last few albums have taken, and like many Numan fans I wish he'd end his collaborations with Ade Fenton. Numan is so much better when left to his own devices.

A cool teaser for the album release:



Here's the super deluxe package being offered on NuWorld:



I'm starting to get excited!

statcat

I really like Gary Numan but not his newer material and this is doing nothing for me either. I know he doesn't want to go back to what he was doing in his early days but I feel like what Numanoid said about the "pseudo-blasphemous religious angle." I wish he would try something different. I don't really like how he always hates on his later 80s work too. Sure it's nowhere near as good but I still find a lot to like about some of it.

mndtrp

I like the bleak atmosphere his newer stuff has, but it tends to make a lot of his music indistinguishable from each other. I'll pick up the new one, though, and probably enjoy it.

islandclaws

Thanks for posting that single, Numanoid. I dig it.

rider555

I have found it impossible to get excited about a new Numan CD since Exile.If he's gonna keep on singing about dark this,and dead that,and God does not exist...ugh..count me out.
I have long switched my allegiances to John Foxx

bearkiss

I really want the deluxe set... But not sure i want to go $150 for it after shipping charges to the US

Numanoid

I didn't know it was an either/or proposition. I'm also a HUGE John Foxx fan.

Numanoid

Check out this video for a recent guest vocal Numan did: