Strange Charm is the tenth studio album, and eighth under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1986 through by Numa Records. The album was not released in the United States until 1999 when it was issued in a digitally remastered form with five bonus tracks by Cleopatra Records. On the same year it was also reissued with bonus tracks in the United Kingdom by Eagle Records.
The album's title is derived from concepts of ...
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Strange Charm is the tenth studio album, and eighth under his own name, by electronic music pioneer Gary Numan, released in 1986 through by Numa Records. The album was not released in the United States until 1999 when it was issued in a digitally remastered form with five bonus tracks by Cleopatra Records. On the same year it was also reissued with bonus tracks in the United Kingdom by Eagle Records.
The album's title is derived from concepts of particle physics, specifically the strange quark and the charm quark.
Strange Charm was Numan's penultimate solo album of the 1980s, and the last studio album released on his self-funded Numa Records label before he signed a contract with IRS Records (he would later release two more albums on Numa in the 1990s). Unlike most of his previous albums, Strange Charm is a fragmented release with no obvious theme on it, either musically or lyrically. Numan admitted that the album was disjointed, concerned more with atmosphere than theme. The majority...
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