#1282 Tubeway Army with Gary Numan - Replicas

A quietly brilliant album, taking the inherent angular coldness of synthesizer-driven new wave and exploding it into a full fledged concept, weaving a disillusioned, fractured, existentially bankrupt world nonetheless full of distant wonder. Musically it sounds quite a lot like the less-ambient tracks off an early Brian Eno album, and strikes about the same 80/20 interesting/fun balance, with fewer wild innovations and more self-assured cool. Decidedly worth hearing once 3.5/5