Advantages: A classic rock anthem Disadvantages: Maybe not for electric Numan fans
...year that brought us the Pure album.
During this time Gary Numan was also indulging in his love of flying, taking part in aerobic displays and his well documented round the world flight that almost ended in disaster.
In 1992 he met the girl fan he was to marry in 1997.
And so to Gary Numan’s latest offering.
Pure
And so twenty-two years after his debut Gary Numan comes back to hit the listening public squarely between the eyes with a classic.
Pure ...
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Advantages: Some stunning tracks, it's an incredible effort considering where he came from Disadvantages: A few dull moments, but I still can't wait for the next one
...just rehash the NIN formula. Pure has more synth tunes and less guitar noise – I suppose if you really wanted to you could call it New Romantic Industrial. And then of course you have NuNuman’s voice, it’s a voice that you could very easily call ‘unique’ and you’ll probably be wondering just how well it’s transferred to his new career. Well, quite well – at times he verges on sounding like a demented ...
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Advantages: Just a fantastic album. Sheer quality. Disadvantages: none.
Last year Pure saw Eighties King, Gary Numan, make a triumphant entry into the new millennium. No retro- eighties stylings here, rather a full circle of influences taking him to a new place. 15 years ago Numan was inspiring the likes of Trent Resnor, Burton C Bell, and a whole raft of other people, who then spun off into the dark 'n' heavy hinterland, well away from the shiny pop world Numan had started out in. The turn of the century spun the wheel ...
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