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Review: Already 13 albums deep, Gary Numan unveiled Pure in November 2000, a pivotal year in world history even if we all thought its significance was just the passing of one century, and millennium, into the next. We hadn't seen it, but the decade that followed served to bookend modernism itself, landing us in a very different time - post-analogue, post-truth, post-physicality, post-recording industry, and, in many ways, post-human. What better way to mark the transition than with this electro-synth-goth collection?

Well, it depends who you ask. Arriving to mixed reviews at the time, with comparisons to Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson not meant favourably (artists critics said had already explored these sounds before Numan dived in, despite his veteran status), listening back now those comments seem more unfair than ever. The reality is, Pure marks the next stage in a long-evolution of a mastermind who, over decades, has continued to venture further into darkness, never even considering to step back.