Splinter: Songs From A Broken Mind (studio album)
by Gary Numan

Splinter: Songs From A Broken Mind by Gary Numan
Year: 2013
Release date: 2013-10-09
Overall rank: 8,198th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 29 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2013 (185th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (1,603rd)
Award Best albums of all time (8,198th)

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Gary Numan bestography

Splinter: Songs From A Broken Mind is ranked 6th best out of 71 albums by Gary Numan on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Gary Numan is The Pleasure Principle which is ranked number 1462 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,163.

Gary Numan album bestography « Higher ranked (7,715th)
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Splinter: Songs From A Broken Mind
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79/100 (from 29 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.0/100, a mean average of 79.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.

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From 12/20/2013 17:22
The new nine inch nails album sounds like it continues where "The Fragile" left off. So does this album. However, if you want to hear what the new nine inch nails album could've been under an alternate reality where the tracks donned less keyboards and were less like dance tracks and more like the alt-industrial "The Fragile" left off with, then you're in luck with Gary Numan. I haven't really listened to his stuff since the 80's, but i was pleasantly surprised with the stylistic shift (that supposedly happened a few albums prior) from new wave 80s synth to this industrial rock. These tracks do NOT resemble his 80s work, so please wipe that from your mind. Instead, if industrial rock is your thing, i invite you to try the new Numan.
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