…remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road.
After breaking through to massive U.K. fame with his 1979 album The Pleasure Principle, and its chart-topping new wave isolationist anthem “Cars,” Gary Numan got darker, more intense, and more solemn on his second proper solo album, 1980’s Telekon. The shifts in his work were happening quickly, with both Replicas (the last of two albums Numan made with his punkier group Tubeway Army) and The Pleasure Principle being released in 1979, and the songs for Telekon being written and recorded by the end of that year, but held back for a release in September of 1980 as not to flood the market. Telekon was, in part, Numan’s response to overnight success, with songs that alluded cryptically to conclusions and…

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