Mortal Geometry

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Mortal Geometry
Numb - Mortal Geometry.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 23, 2019 (2019-08-23)
StudioStudio 7
(Ho Chi Minh City, VT)
Genre Electro-industrial
Length57:45
Label Metropolis
Producer
  • David Collings
  • Don Gordon
Numb chronology
Language of Silence
(1998)
Mortal Geometry
(2019)

Mortal Geometry is the seventh studio album by Numb, released on August 23, 2019 by Metropolis Records. [1]

Contents

Reception

A critic at I Die: You Die credited the band with sounding inventive after over twenty year away from studio, saying "fluid textures of the later-90s material with some of the clarity and structure of their mechanized-rock era proves to be a good formula that sounds like the band without also sounding dated or like a retread." [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Don Gordon.

No.TitleLength
1."Redact"4:23
2."Hush"5:07
3."Complicit Silence"5:51
4."The Waiting Room"5:30
5."How It Ends"6:15
6."Summer Lawns"3:25
7."When Gravity Fails"6:30
8."Shadow Play"9:24
9."Mortal Geometry"5:39
10."Hush (Creation to Negation)"5:41

Personnel

Adapted from the Mortal Geometry liner notes. [3]

Numb

Additional musicians

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States2019 Metropolis CD, DL, LP MET 1169

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References

  1. "Numb: Mortal Geometry > Overview". Allmusic. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  2. "Numb: Mortal Geometry". I Die: You Die. idieyoudie.com. September 13, 2019. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  3. Mortal Geometry (booklet). Numb. Media, Pennsylvania: Metropolis Records. 2019.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)