Gary Numan’s classic album ‘Warriors’ is set for a limited vinyl reissue.
The LP, released in 1983, features the singles Warriors – his last UK Top 20 single to date – and Sister Surprise.
Due September 24, the new reissue features the album in its original configuration pressed on orange wax.
This lovely thing is being released by Beggars Arkive on September 24th. Warriors, a limited edition on Orange vinyl. You can pre-order it now from the official Numan Store. https://t.co/Hpcwm7RI6c pic.twitter.com/J61ednpYhi
— Gary Numan (@numanofficial) August 20, 2021
Of the record, Gary, who released his 18th album ‘Intruder’ earlier this year, says: “I still like a lot of the Warriors stuff and Bill Nelson did a lot of very inventive things on it which, because of our differences, I failed to appreciate at the time.
“I think the Mad Max image convinced a lot of people, the press especially, that it was a sci-fi album. Much of it though was actually quite autobiographical.
“Even songs like The Iceman Comes and This Prison Moon were more to do with what I was going through than anything sci-fi.
“Lyrically I was already becoming overly focused on the career struggle.”
He goes on to explain of the title track: “Warriors was written, in the main, in a hotel room in Jersey.
“My girlfriend had just left me, I’d been evicted from the house I was living in and I felt pretty much alone in more ways than one.
“Despite its surface gloss of futurism it was really very inward looking. To me the image was meant to represent someone fighting for survival as much as anything”
‘Warriors’ is available to pre-order on limited edition orange vinyl now.
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