Dead Son Rising

Gary Numan has had a “teacher becomes the student” relationship with Trent Reznor for more than a decade now, and the new Dead Son Rising sounds like it easily could have been released on Reznor’s Nothing Records imprint in the late ’90s. On Son, Numan sticks with his firmly established template of distortion-soaked…

A reworked collection of songs previously discarded from several studio albums, Gary Numan's 20th effort, Dead Son Rising, suggests that the electro-pop pioneer should scrabble around for any more leftovers lurking in the vaults.

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