Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind)
Check out our album review of Artist's Splinter (Songs From a Broken Mind) on Rolling Stone.com.
With production from techno stalwart Ade Fenton, Gary Numan's first widely-available release since 2006's Jagged convincingly trounces recent efforts by Nine Inch Nails, proving just how deeply and fervently Numan has embraced the poppier end of the industrial spectrum. The snarling guitars and glitchy beats of opener I Am Dust wouldn't have sounded out of place on any late-period NIN record, except perhaps for the turgid Hesitation Marks.
For a man with nearly 40 years in the game, Gary Numan still holds an impressive amount of sway.
Gary Numan's latest album puts his recent struggles with depression and mid-life crises to music, and it's an appropriately uneasy listen, writes <strong>Maddy Costa</strong>
The struggle to make sense of the new wave master's new material. CD review by Lisa-Marie Ferla