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(More customer reviews)I've been a Gary Numan fan since 1979 and, frankly, it hasn't been easy. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, his albums have been a little hard to swallow, usually containing one or two fantastic songs mixed with tunes that range from "just miss" to "absolutely embarrassing." Then, something happened. In 1994, Numan stopped writing songs geared towards getting radio airplay and started writing stuff he wanted to hear. The first evidence of this newfound confidence was 1994's SACRIFICE, an absolutely dark, brooding album. It was the kind of music I'd been longing to hear him make since 1982. Numan followed SACRIFICE with EXILE, an even angrier album.
2000's PURE turns down the anger, but turns up just about everything else. Numan's characteristic synthesizers have teamed up with guitar power chords, a new vocal style, the return of real drums and a use of distorted sound samples and electro-noise that recalls both the best of the Tubeway Army days and the more modern industrial sounds of Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
Numan sings with a confidence I've not heard him sing with before. By allowing his emotions to ooze into his delivery, he absolutely boils over with both power and delicacy in his vocals.
Gary Numan has created an album that can be held up to all those that have wondered what long-time fans have seen in him all this time. It is this: PURE.
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2001 studio release from Gary Numan featuring "Listen To My Voice", "Rip" and "Pure".--This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.
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