Gary Numan - Exile
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Artist: Gary NumanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Music Label: Eagle Records
Soundtracks:
- Dominion Day
- Prophecy
- Dead Heaven
- Dark
- Innocence Bleeding
- The Angel Wars
- Absolution
- An Alien Cure
- Exile
Free Music Notes for Exile
Free Music Review: A perfected gem many years in the making
Hit: 5 Stars
Late 80's saw Mr. Numan getting angry lyrically, but not until '94's Sacrifice did that anger really translate musically (we heard some in Machine + Soul, but not enough to deem it an 'angry' album). Unlike most people, I love and embrace every angle and phase of Numan's music, from his early Mean Street punk material to his gothic industrial madness, and everything in between. But for a while I just wouldn't give his latest albums any chance, which was a huge mistake for me. Numan hasn't ever lost his edge as a musical genius.
With that said, this album takes the newfound industrial style of his earlier 90's albums and perfects it. To me, 'Outland', 'Machine+Soul' and 'Sacrifice' were a bit too percussion heavy, not a bad thing, but that side of the albums really show in comparison to this 'Exile'; on this album, Numan embraces his electronic side full force. With the muscular percussion, the wall of industrial synths (which often sound pretty organic at times), electric guitars, and Numan's incredible vocal talents, Numan creates a vision of darkness continued from 'Sacrifice'.
What's best is that every track, unlike Sacrifice, is very unique to each other (once again, the drum machine heavy sound of Sacrifice weakens it a bit), while retaining a shadowy cohesiveness.
Also, while Jagged and Pure are to me a little too strong on the guitar end of things, Exile just has the feel of complete balance. You can hear all the years of Numan's music in here, but doesn't rely on his back catalogue's sound either. Numan has always been an evolver, and this album is probably the biggest proof of that.
I don't have complete praise for the album, however, as I just can't get into 'Dominion Day'; it's a well written song musically and lyrically, but something about it just strays. Maybe it's because it sounds a little imbalanced as compared to the rest of the tracks. But that's just me. I think maybe 'Dark', which was also on the Dark City soundtrack, or 'Dead Heaven' should've been made the one single in Dominion Day's stead, but again that's my opinion.
And don't forget that this is the year where Numan did a few re-workings of older songs: 'Metal', 'Down In The Park', and 'Voix'. These tracks retain the strengths of originals while getting treated to the dark evolution of Exile's sound; great pieces.
Overall, this is a piece not to be missed. It may be 10 years old now, but sure doesn't sound like it. I think this may be one of Numan's more timeless masterpieces.
And if you don't like or think you'll like Numan's dark industrial side, at least give this one a chance; it may change your outlook like it has mine.
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Originally released in 1999, this album features a number of Numan favorites including "Dominion Day" and "An Alien Cure".Gary Numan used to have it all. In the early '80s, he was the platinum-haired poster boy for that wacky fad known as new wave, and his concerts--after the breakthrough hit "Cars"--were suitably outlandish affairs in which the singer even drove onstage in a tiny geometric automobile. Then? Bupkes. He faded like a pair of old bellbottoms. But with Exile, right on post-Nine Inch Nails cue, Numan returns, synths a-gurgling, with a grim, Gothic update on his classic techno-sound. Exile, a study in the artist's professed agnosticism, comes off strangely contemporary, as if Numan never left. Which, as most overseas fans know, he never truly did. He released a lot of post-"Cars" albums, but most couldn't hold a candle to this U.S. comeback. --Tom Lanham
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