Sacrifice (Gary Numan album)
Sacrifice is the twelfth solo studio album by English musician Gary Numan, released in October 1994 by Numa Records. Its release is often cited as marking the start of a critical and artistic rejuvenation for Numan. The album was released in the US in 1997 with a different title, "Dawn", based on the comic book character Dawn. It also carried cover art by Joseph Michael Linsner. A number of tracks displayed an antipathy towards religion, a stance that had been noted in isolated songs from early in Numan's career but which became more pronounced on  this album and its successors, "Exile" (1997) and "Pure" (2000). Numan later stated that whilst "Exile" was a fictional story, ""Sacrifice" looks at my actual beliefs". In a 2000 interview, Numan described his approach to the recording. Prior to "Sacrifice", "I spent quite a few years just trying to write songs that would get me back on the radio". For the new album, "I just went right back to the way I was when I was a teenager, first time writing songs, with all the enthusiasm for it". The resultant music, whilst not a commercial success, garnered Numan his best  notices in years and coincided with the beginnings of a critical reassessment of his career and acknowledgment of his influence on such artists as Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Marilyn Manson, The Magnetic Fields, The Prodigy and Afrika Bambaataa. An 'Extended' version of "Sacrifice", approximately twice as long again as the original, was released in 1995. The same year, most of the tracks appeared on "Dark Light", Numan's live recording from the "Sacrifice" tour. In 1999 the album was reissued with bonus tracks in the UK (Eagle Records) and US (Cleopatra Records). As with other reissues of albums originally  released on Numa Records, the US version had a somewhat different selection of bonus tracks as well as altered artwork. Re-mastered release. On 21 July 2021, Vaughn George announced that "Sacrifice" (1994), "Exile" (1997) and "Pure" (2000) would be re-produced with modern production standards. Track listing. All tracks written by Gary Numan.