THE INTRUDER SONGS PLUS

There was a global event that arguably could tie in directly with what the album was already saying. When COVID came along, it was this horrible coincidence. Even the idea that the Earth is probably fighting back now against us was already there. Intruder was well underway - it had a theme, subject matter and most of the content was there. I had probably done about nine songs before the pandemic started. Gary Numan: That’s just a tragic coincidence, I’m afraid. Rock Cellar: Although you began work on Intruder before the pandemic hit, some lyrics relate to what people have been going through since 2020. Gary Numan: Savage started out as a book called “Ruin.” I just liberated ideas from that. Rock Cellar: Didn’t the previous album’s lyrics stem from a novel you’d been working on? But definitely connected.Ĭlick here to pick up Intruder on CD from our Rock Cellar StoreĬlick here to pick up Intruder on Deluxe CD from our Rock Cellar StoreĬlick here to pick up Intruder on 2-LP from our Rock Cellar Store If the Earth could speak, how would the Earth talk about the way it feels at the moment? What would it say, given a voice about what we’re doing to it? So, it’s very much in the now - a different look at the same issue compared to what Savage was. What would humanity become? How brutal and savage would it need to be to survive in such a hostile place where resources are scarce and people are desperate? But it has climate change as its core, obviously. My science fiction fantasy was about 100 years from the time of the great apocalypse. Gary Numan: has climate change in its reason for being. Rock Cellar: Would it be fair to say that thematically, Intruder is a continuation of what you created on 2017’s Savage: Songs from a Broken World? I feel a bit guilty saying that I’ve been doing it ever since because that doesn’t sound very adventurous, but I have really.

Initially, I went in that direction more because I just wanted to hear that kind of music.

I wrote that one because I didn’t hear anybody else doing it really. I made in album in ’97 called Exile, which is much the same thing that I’m doing now. I like that sort of music and I think I’m pretty good at that sort of thing. I’ve been in that same world now for a while because I really enjoy it and I think it’s where I’m most at home. There’s a bit of a road map, a placemark that I’ve been on for quite some time: This slightly heavier, industrial feel, but not hardcore, with a Middle Eastern influence here and there. When you first started working on this release, did you have any goals in mind? Rock Cellar: Intruder is one of your more compelling studio albums since reinventing your sound and gravitating toward a more aggressive electronic rock direction. We recently checked in with Numan, 63, while en route to his home in Los Angeles for a candid and thought-provoking phone interview focusing in part on his new album, Intruder. Since then, the singer has racked up a dozen more top 20 singles at home, been cited as an influence on modern rock acts like Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson, and become a frequent sampling source by countless rappers and electronic acts.

THE INTRUDER SONGS PLUS

1 albums - Replicas (with Tubeway Army), The Pleasure Principle and Telekon - plus the back-to-back pop chart topping songs “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” and “Cars.” The latter tune also became a top 10 hit worldwide, including America. Gary Numan is a dark wave music progenitor who took the British music scene by storm in the late 1970s and early ‘80s.ĭuring a three-year period, the London native notched three consecutive U.K.

The intruder songs