“Love and Napalm” by Gary Numan

"Love and Napalm" sits on Sacrifice, the twelfth solo album Gary Numan released on Numa Records in October 1994, and it's largely a one-man job: Numan wrote the words and music, sang it, produced it, engineered it and mixed it himself, with Gemma Webb assisting at the desk and Kipper adding bass synthesizer.

The album is often pointed to as the moment Numan's critical and creative fortunes turned back up. It's also where his distaste for religion, glimpsed in the odd song early in his career, pushed to the front on a number of tracks; Numan later said the record dealt with what he actually believed. American listeners got it in 1997 under a different name, Dawn, after the comic book character, with cover art by Joseph Michael Linsner.

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