Savage (Songs from a Broken World)

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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.

In Conversation: Gary Numan Embodies an Angry and Disillusioned Planet Earth on "Intruder" ". FLOOD . Retrieved 24 April 2022. On 13 May 2016, Numan added a video and the following text to Facebook regarding the ballad "If I Said", wherein his daughters, Persia and Echo, sing the song in unison: Savage: 'Songs From A Broken World’ was released on September 15th 2017 and is Gary's 22nd studio album.Irish Albums Chart: 15 September 2017". Irish Recorded Music Association . Retrieved 23 September 2017. The couple have been through “very traumatic” IVF and lost a baby (they now have three teenage daughters), but their only serious period of turbulence was when both experienced depression. “She was coming out of hers just as I was going into mine,” he says. “I was thinking of … not getting divorced, but getting away for a while because everything felt negative.” The majority of the songs on the new album are taken from ideas I’ve been working on for a novel. Yes, embarrassingly, the same novel I’ve been talking about for years. My long neglected Science Fantasy epic that will probably never see the light of day but, much as the short stories I was writing around Replicas time did for that album, so this permanently unfinished book is giving me a huge amount of material to write new songs about. The ideas for the book gave me songs for Dead Son Rising, a few for Splinter and now quite a few for Savage. All of the drums on Savage are electronic – there are no acoustic or acoustic-sounding drums at all. Once the lyrical content started to flow and Gary had decided on the ‘concept’, lots more ideas on the production front started to flow. For example, we used a lot of war-type tribal drums and thunderous cinematic toms to get that feeling across of the music being post-apocalyptic. Grech, Aaron (6 October 2018). "Gary Numan Announces New EP The Fallen For November 2018 Release". mxdwn.com . Retrieved 9 November 2018.

Official Albums Chart Top 100 (29 Sep 2017)". Official Charts Company. 29 September 2017 . Retrieved 14 June 2021. Curley, John. " "Intruder" is one of Gary Numan's most interesting albums". Goldmine Magazine: Record Collector & Music Memorabilia . Retrieved 25 April 2022. Savage entered the UK album chart at number two, on 22 September 2017, [14] but it dropped out of the top twenty the following week. [15] A re-entry to the chart in March 2018 gave the album a total chart run of 5 weeks in the Top 100. [16] [17] Release formats [ edit ]

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I mix a lot of analogue gear, digital and software. For a lot of the sound design stuff, I’m using a couple of analogue hardware synths from a boutique British synth company called Analogue Solutions. A lot of the sound design originates there and just gets processed to hell, either through outboard gear or, most of the time, plugins. The problem though is that it's now 2017 and Numan's music (not to mention the genre) hasn't evolved much in 20 years. Stylistically he's in a comfort zone using a very predictable palate. All of the ingredients that were found on "Splinter" (and "Jagged" and "Pure" before it); the damp metallic atmospherics, scratchy synth bleats, menacing bursts of industrial guitar, all tempered with a decidedly melodic gloss, are here on "Savage" as well; amounting to a kind of de-sexualized version of NIN.

Gary Numn [sic] Is Set To Release His New Album 'Savage' – Alt360º Radio". Alt360º Radio. 6 July 2017. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017 . Retrieved 10 July 2017. Offiziellecharts.de – Gary Numan – Intruder" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2 June 2021. The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | A Brutal Harmony: Gary Numan & Ade Fenton Interviewed". The Quietus . Retrieved 25 April 2022.Swisscharts.com – Gary Numan – Savage (Songs From A Broken World)". Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 September 2017.