Strange Charm by Gary Numan

Strange Charm, Gary Numan's eighth solo studio album, came out on 27 October 1986, the third release on his own Numa Records label. By now the man who'd topped the UK charts at the turn of the decade was playing to a smaller, fiercely loyal cult audience, and he was calling his own shots.

The trademark sound is all there: heavy synthesizer hooks pushed through guitar effects pedals, and that distinctive voice, still wrapped in the android persona. Americans never saw it in 1986; it only reached the US in 1999, when Cleopatra Records issued a digitally remastered version with five bonus tracks, the same year Eagle Records reissued it with extras in the UK.

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