Gary Numan: Dead Son Rising (2LP, deluxe) [BMG]

Why you'll love it

A deluxe 2LP set of Gary Numan's 2011 album, made with longtime collaborator Ade Fenton. It's the dark, cinematic record that carries "Dead Sun Rising" and "The Fall", and it opened the door to the run of albums that put Numan back on top.

This edition

• Deluxe 2LP set
• Eleven tracks including the instrumentals "Resurrection" and "Into Battle"

About the album

Dead Son Rising started life as a pile of leftover demos, but by the time Gary Numan and producer Ade Fenton had finished with them, the original ideas were, as Numan put it, barely visible. What emerged was something more experimental: heavy, industrial and cinematic, with two instrumentals, "Resurrection" and "Into Battle", that sound like the score to a film neither of them had made yet.

"Dead Sun Rising" and "We Are The Lost" grew out of a science-fiction story Numan had been writing for years, and "The Fall" and "For The Rest Of My Life" were reworked from songs dating back to the Pure sessions. It closes with a piano version of "Not The Love We Dream Of". The man who gave us "Cars" has spent forty years refusing to look back, and on the evidence here, he's right not to.

Tracklist

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Out November 20, 2026 on BMG, a reissue of the 2011 album.