Well into his third-act comeback as a Trent Reznor-endorsed elder statesmen of industrial goth-metal, Gary Numan scoreda No 2 smash in 2017 with his dystopian climate-disaster concept album Savage: Songs From A Broken World, his highest chart placing in almost 40 years. Billed as a sequel, Intruder tells an angrier, darker story about Mother Earth fighting back on clobbering synth-heavy epics such as “I Am Screaming” and “The End Of Dragons”. The songs are often guilty of bloated bombast, but Numan retains an impressive command of cinematic melodrama and richly layered sonic detail, notably on the stadium-sized doom ballad “And It Breaks Me Again”.