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Sacrifice
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Track Listing
- Pray
- Deadliner
- Question Of Faith
- Desire
- Scar
- Love And Napalm
- You Walk In My Soul
- Magic
- Bleed
- Seed Of A Lie
- Play Like God
- Whisper Of Truth
- Metal Beat
- Absolution
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #18915 in Music
- Released on: 2002-05-01
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Numan's return to form
Since the early 80's Gary Numan's music and career had been on a downward slide and while this album didn't exactly make him a number 1 chart-topper again, it was by far his best album since his heyday. He ditched the poppy, dance-funk style that he'd been churning out and doing himself no favours with, and went down a much darker path. Sacrifice is a lushly atmospheric, gothic sounding album, very melodic, think later Depeche Mode mixed with Sisters of Mercy and you'd probably get something like this. There's not one bad song on the album. By far, one of his very best. If you've never heard any Gary Numan this is a great place to start.
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indeed. together with walker brother's nite flights it's like an infernal comeback. whoever whatever thought that it was written off had pulled himself in sanatorium. something just like the dinosaurs comeback. in the sense of the greatness. esoteric existencialism.
INDUSTRIAL BUT MELODIC !!!!
After the excellent but unsuccesful ¨Machine And Soul ¨,Numan went in a darker,industrial direction taking elements from current (for 94) music which he had inspired and influenced in the first place.This is a low-budget solo effort made entirely by himself in the studio with the only aid of guitarrist Kipper for the extra solos and TJ Davies for some backing vocals.The lyrics deal with agnosticism in a very angry way,a direction he would follow for the next two records with great success.The music has now a lot of keyboard bottom end,heavy guitar parts,the usual percussion programming and much less processed and natural vocals.Most of the album is of a dark,heavy upbeat nature with some excellent slow,opressive songs in a way only Numan can achieve but all of them have a nicely acomplished melodic line to them.
The sound,on the other hand,is still not good but a vast improvement over the original release (I have Dawn too).The midrange has been cleaned and beefed up,so the vocals are no longer distorted and muddled up as before,and the upper end is a tad better as well,only it now exhibits a marked imbalance to the left ( revealed or introduced by remastering ? ) on many of the album tracks.
The bonus tracks are comprised of singles,b-sides and demos,of lesser sound quality but high musical value.An EXCELLENT album and in my opinion a better treat than the 2 follow ups in terms of musicality rather than sheer sonic impact.
