Artist.......: Gary Numan
Album........: Jagged
Label........: Cooking Vinyl
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-02-2006
str.date.....: Mar-13-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.numan.co.uk/
track title time
01. Pressure 05:20
02. Fold 05:48
03. Halo 04:17
04. Slave 06:02
05. In a dark place 06:07
06. Haunted 05:32
07. Blind 07:01
08. Before you hate it 05:14
09. Melt 05:19
10. Scanner 06:03
11. Jagged 05:25
Runtime 62:08 min
Size 89,5 MB
Release Notes:
Gary Numan releases his first new studio album in
just over five years on 13th March, 2006, on Mortal
Records which is licensed to Cooking Vinyl.
Co-produced with underground electronic artist Ade
Fenton, Jagged is an aggressive, forward-looking
album which takes the best elements of his previous
work and gives them an anthemic, contemporary
twist. Numan will be launching it with a one-off
gig at The Forum on 18 March, followed by a full UK
tour in April.
Unusually amongst his contemporaries Numan has come
into his own in the 21st Century both as an artist
and as an influence. In 2000, his Pure album was
described as 'the best music he's made since his
1979/80 heyday' by The Sunday Times, while Kerrang!
enthused, 'if you like your melancholia dense and
dynamic you won't want Pure to end.'
Three years later he released Hybrid, an album of
collaborations and re-worked version of classic
tracks which included the Top 20 hit 'Crazier',
featuring electronic punk Rico. According to Mojo,
the album's 'sheer quality wins through . . .
revealing the dark soul of a true pioneer', while
Time Out were not only 'blown away' by the revised
versions but also noted the presence of 'three
tantalisingly good new songs'. At the time Numan
was also 'cool again' thanks to Basement Jaxx's
sampling his songs on 'Where's Your Head At' and
the impact of Sugababes's Number 1 single, 'Freak
Like Me' which was based around his 1979
chart-topper, 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' Yet since
then Numan's cultural relevance has, if anything,
grown stronger than ever before thanks to the likes
of Goldfrapp, White Rose Movement, The Rapture,
Jacques Lu Cont, The Faint, The Killers and The
Bravery.
Meanwhile, Jagged is one of the darkest and most
electronic albums of his career, re-wiring the
apocalyptic synthesizer pop of Numan's own 'Down In
The Park' into something equally unique and
powerful. Like his best albums it gets to the
essence of Numan's appeal - a vocal that is
alienated yet strangely soulful; a desire to push
technology as far as he can and atmospheric sounds
lashed to power chords and dream-like melodies.
Numan also mixes rock elements into the album
through the massive choruses - especially on
'Fold,' 'Haunted', 'Blind' and 'In A Dark Place' -
but they're given a new potency through the
siren-like wail of machines rather than guitars.
And for the first time in 20 years, Numan has
re-introduced live drums onto the new album,
including two tracks 'Haunted' and 'Halo' played by
Jerome Dillon (ex- Nine Inch Nails). Rob Holliday
(Sulpher and the Prodigy's new live guitarist) and
Monti (Sulpher, former Curve drummer) also guest on
Jagged, along with dance producer Andy Gray and
Martin McCarrick (ex-Siouxsie & The Banshees) on
cello.