Savage (Songs from a Broken World)

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Top 50 Independent Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. 22 September 2017 . Retrieved 22 September 2017. The world the album describes is savage, and the people in it need to be equally savage to survive, but that’s all there is to it. It’s fantasy, but based on my fears about what’s going to happen to future generations if we don’t do what needs to be done to protect the planet. It is not particularly political, not anti religious (for once), not anti anything other than the almost unbelievably ignorant decisions in one part of the world to walk away from agreements and commitments concerned with combating climate change and protecting our environment. Not every song is about this, I have other things that have found their way in to the album, but the image and style of ‘Savage’ is very much guided by the concerns mentioned above. a b Gray, Josh. "Gary Numan, SAVAGE (SONGS FROM A BROKEN WORLD)". thequietus.com. The Quietus . Retrieved 24 November 2017.

Official Albums Chart Top 100 (11 June 2021)". Official Charts Company. 11 June 2021 . Retrieved 14 June 2021. Savage then is a theme album by and large. Set in a post apocalyptic future where the earth has been devastated by global warming and what remains is mostly harsh, barren and desert like. The various cultures of the people that survived have, over generations, essentially merged into one. That merging driven mostly by the necessities of surviving in the environment that remains. The language spoken in this future world is essentially English, but the Middle Eastern influence is seen everywhere (hence the typeface I’ve chosen for the artwork). There is therefore a subtle but definite Middle Eastern influence musically on this album here and there, in some melodies especially, and that was deliberate. The music has to reflect the idea of cultures merging that exists in this fictional future. The book (and therefore the album) is based upon concerns about the catastrophic effects of ignoring global warming, and how the survivors must adapt, and nothing at all to do with comparing existing cultures, terrorism, religion or nuclear war. The title, Savage, does not refer to a person, or to a culture, but to the environment the people exist in in this forbidding future, and the new photos are meant to depict a scene from that. It is certainly not meant to imply that people that live in a desert region are ‘Savage’. The clothes I’m wearing are not desert clothes, they are pseudo military looking (and meant to look worn out in the harshness of that world) and represent the way we may all need to look if policies designed to stop the effects of global warning are abandoned or ignored in certain vitally important key regions of the world over the next four years.His wife also helped him recognise where his music had gone wrong. “I’d come to think of myself as the weak link in my albums,” he explains. “I was bringing in guitar players and other people to do the vocals. She said, ‘You may not be the best keyboard player or guitarist in the world, but you have a sound that people love.’ She was right.” So why Gary? Well I guess it was kinda inevitable, I absolutely adore the early work of Gary Numan (including Tubeway Army), and I have gained a growing, if remote, interest in what this fine musician has been up to in the past few years. So when that a brand new release was coming in 2017, I thought why not... Please forgive the proud Dad in me but this is a clip of Persia and Echo singing the "If I Said" piano demo. I'd just finished the lyric and they had just that minute come home from school. They didn't really know the tune at all so it's a little wayward in places. They are both dyslexic, so them reading it at all was enough to make me watery-eyed, but having your own children sing one of your new songs is about as special as it gets. [ citation needed] Album chart eligibility [ edit ] I’m not precious about it, they’re Gary’s songs and it’s my job to make them sound as good as possible. For Savage, I thought his voice needed to be at the top of the mix. He’s a bit like David Bowie – you can’t mistake Gary Numan’s voice for anybody else. We’ve also tried to use the same high string sounds that he used on early albums like The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, but in a more contemporary way. 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.

You accept you are inherently unlikable’ … Numan struggled with anxiety. Photograph: Matt Frost/Sky UKForever associated with 'Cars' and 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' by the great unwashed, many criminally lost interest after the chart toppers ended. They missed Numan's jazz phase, his attempts at dance music, his struggles to re-connect with the public and the radio and of course his eventual decision to make the kind of music he wanted, regardless of commerciality. So here we are in 2017. 'Savage' is not an easy listening album. Lead off single 'My Name Is Ruin' is by some distance the most commercial offering here, yet the song and the video are still stunningly bleak. I've been on the journey. I remember those days when Numan was pilloried by the music press (yes they actually mattered in those days), the later days when he was almost universally ignored and his records barely charted. And the days when he was justly feted by such luminaries as Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson & Damon Albarn. a b Lewis, Canis (11 May 2021). "Album review: Gary Numan - Intruder". Elektro Vox . Retrieved 25 April 2022. As you may have seen the new UK tour for the forthcoming Savage album has just been announced. Shows in Europe will be announced very soon and a North American tour will be confirmed, hopefully, in the next few weeks. I’m also looking at many other places around the world so, if things come together as I hope, I will be able to add a constant string of shows around the world in the coming months. I can’t deny that I am very excited and optimistic about the next twelve months and what could happen with this album.

The reason for this post though is as an explanation. A few people seem concerned about the imagery of the new photos, the tour flyer, the type face used, the title itself ‘Savage’ combined with those things and so on. It seems that some misunderstanding is occurring and that some of you feel that, in these troubled times, it could be taken the wrong way. So, I would obviously like to clear that up before it goes any further because none of that is intended. Curley, John. " "Intruder" is one of Gary Numan's most interesting albums". Goldmine Magazine: Record Collector & Music Memorabilia . Retrieved 25 April 2022. The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | A Brutal Harmony: Gary Numan & Ade Fenton Interviewed". The Quietus . Retrieved 25 April 2022. She has given me a confidence’ … Numan with wife Gemma O’Neill. Photograph: Sky UK/Gary Numan Resurrection The Daily Beast published an article by Gary Numan which details the “Trump connection” to this album entitled “How Trump’s ‘Stupidity’ on Climate Change Became my Twisted Inspiration.”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.” And so, a stunning 38 years beyond those chart toppers, Numan has achieved the unthinkable -- an album of new material, entirely on his own terms, crashing straight into the UK chart at number two.

I’ve known Gary for many years and first became friends through a mutual friend of his wife, Gemma. I’d always had a love for dark, industrial electronic music, and just by chance was partying at Gary’s house when he was writing the album Jagged.This is an album that rewards repeated listens. It holds together as a unit, a collection of apocalyptic songs presaging a possible, an all too possible these days, future for humanity. a b Ingalls, Chris (19 September 2017). "Gary Numan: Savage (Songs From a Broken World)". PopMatters.com. PopMatters . Retrieved 24 November 2017.