Rating: - Oh dear
I don't think I've heard an album with such appalling production values as Sacrifice. You would have thought after a career spanning more than two decades Gary Numan would be able to engineer and mix his own recordings competently.

Sacrifice is another droning earache of an album with absolutely zero dynamics. Song after song the same drum loop is used ad nauseam. Sonicaly it's all over the place, you can't hear what's going on so if there really are great melodies on this album then ... Read More

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Rating: - INDUSTRIAL BUT MELODIC !!!!
After the excellent but unsuccesful ?Machine And Soul ?,Numan went in a darker,industrial direction taking elements from current (for 94) music which he had inspired and influenced in the first place.This is a low-budget solo effort made entirely by himself in the studio with the only aid of guitarrist Kipper for the extra solos and TJ Davies for some backing vocals.The lyrics deal with agnosticism in a very angry way,a direction he would follow for the next two records with great success.The music ... Read More

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Rating: - "I'll give you dark wonders you are all invited to the show"
When Sacrifice came out in 1994, most Numan fans breathed a collective sigh of relief. Sacrifice was the first Numan album in years that did not have the Janet Jacksonesque dance music with the domineering female background vocalists. It followed Machine & Soul which many fans consider the lowest point in his career. I can find many excellent tracks off all of Numan's albums from his dance era (even his collaboration with Bill Sharpe), but I was still glad to hear his new sound when I first heard ... Read More

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Rating: - Transformation Album
Gary Numan is an artist I used to stickly associate "Cars" with. This recorded starts the dark industrial influence for Gary. It truely feel he began a new journey here. The song, Pray defines the overall tone of the record. Play Like God is a very cool extended mix B side. Gary continues to grow and change. He puts together quite a band too.

The record is hard driving where as Exile is slower and darker industrial style techno I suppose. For me, "Pure" takes the cake, but this is a great ... Read More

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Rating: - Truely a shame, I think...
This has been dubbed along the way as the first in the dark Numan trilogy with Sacrifice followed by the unbelievable Exile and Pure. This disc is obviously where he made the leap to the dark side because it sounds as though he knows what he wants, but just doesn't quite get to 100% of it. Exile is the 100% marker. Still, this is an awesome stack of tunes that kinda shed light on the storyline (I seem to find one in these three discs all throughout, they all connect somehow). Sacrifice is the naive ... Read More