by
Gary Numan
- Record Label: Universal Music
- Release Date: Oct 15, 2013
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Oct 14, 2013Kicking off with I Am Dust, it hangs together marvellously as an album.
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MagnetOct 18, 2013Splinter offers a hammering continuum of some of Gary Numan's most stunning synth rhythms to date. [No. 103, p.59]
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Oct 17, 2013This time Numan struggled with depression in the past few years (which nearly broke up his marriage). This all comes through in the lyrics, which are mostly good (one particularly haunting line: "I don't believe in the goodness of people like me"), even if they lay it on a little thick sometimes.
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Oct 17, 2013Gary Numan is easily poised for a comeback, even though he never really went anywhere, and Splinter is easily his strongest album in years.
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Oct 14, 2013While Numan's work remains strictly sulky stuff destined to ruin any party, he proves he's not a robot at all on his most connectable, personal, and palpable album to date.
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MojoOct 11, 2013In total, the rejuvenated, rockier Numan's finest hour. [Nov 2013, p.86]
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Q MagazineOct 11, 2013This 20th album is his most overt and conscious attempt to wrestle with specific demons that [diagnosis of being in the autism spectrum] raises up. [Nov 2013, p.113]
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Oct 22, 2013The most compelling moments (“I Am Dust” and the title track) are like mechanized, sci-fi mini-operas, awesomely grandiose and yet disturbingly proximate enough to breathe all that fear right down your neck through your spine.
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Nov 4, 2013It's electronic-age angst, refracted through pop history, back to its source.
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Classic Rock MagazineOct 25, 2013As well as an intact ability to craft and deliver a song, is a sonic techno-armoury far superior to that of his Tubeway Army days. [Nov 2013, p.91]
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Oct 10, 2013It adds up to one of his most vital offerings since those heady days of old.
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UncutOct 10, 2013One of his better efforts. [Nov 2013, p.75]
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Under The RadarOct 10, 2013Sadly, the thrust and thunder of "Love Hurt Bleed" and "We're the Unforgiven" resemble brutally overcooked Nine Inch Nails off-cuts, but for the most part Splinter is a solid and intriguing effort from an artist comfortable with his position in life. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.92]
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