Metacritic Music

Pure
by Gary Numan

Spitfire
Rock, Alternative
1 disc
Released 07 November 2000

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

67 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 PopMatters
Pure is Gary Numan's richest, most powerful and most aggressive work in years.
60 Select
Numan is now crafting music that sounds identical to his disciples. [Nov 2000, p.118]
60 All Music Guide
One has to give credit to an '80s new wave musician who can adapt and create contemporary-sounding music.... The album can comfortably sit alongside Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails on store shelves. Pure doesn't drive like the industrialized adrenaline rush that is, say, Orgy, but the tracks' lingering and creepy pace leaves behind a different kind of impact -- it's more haunting than relentless
60 Q Magazine
A heavyweight, goth-rock death trip, awash with mangled guitars and horror-film atmospherics. [Nov. 2000, p.113]

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