SubHuman


SubHuman is the fourth studio album by Recoil. Alan Wilder stated in a YouTube greeting that there would be a new album coming in spring or early summer 2007. On 23 April 2007, he released information regarding the album via Myspace and his official website, . subHuman was released on 9 July 2007 in Europe. It has been released on various formats including standard CD, gatefold vinyl and a special CD/DVD edition which includes stereo, 5.1 surround and exclusive "ambient" mixes. The DVD included all the music videos made at the time of release.
Working with Wilder on this album was New Orleans native bluesman Joe Richardson, who contributed vocals, guitar, and harmonica. Also working on subHuman was his wife and assistant, Hepzibah Sessa, and Paul Kendall, who worked on the album Liquid of 2000 and mixes from the 1997 Unsound Methods album. Another contributor was English singer Carla Trevaskis, who has worked with Fred de Faye, Cliff Hewitt and Dave McDonald.
The track "99 to Life" refers to the maximum jail sentence handed out, short of the death penalty. This is based on a real story according to Richardson in an interview with the industrial music magazine Side-Line.

Track listing

CD: Mute / CD STUMM 279 (United Kingdom)

CD/DVD: Mute / LCD STUMM 279 (United Kingdom)

Includes CD album as above plus a DVD featuring:
  1. "Faith Healer"
  2. "Drifting"
  3. "Stalker"
  4. "Strange Hours"
  5. "Jezebel"
  6. "Shunt"
  7. "Electro Blues For Bukka White "

    Credits and personnel

"Prey"

25 June 2007

7": Mute / MUTE 372 (UK)

  1. "Prey" – single version edit
  2. "Prey" – reduction edit

    Download: Mute / iMUTE 372 (UK)

  3. "Prey" – single version edit

    Download: Mute / LiMute 372 (UK)

  4. "Prey"
  5. "Prey"
  6. "Prey"
  7. "Prey"

    Free download

8 December 2008
  1. "Prey"

    "The Killing Ground"

Free download

1 October 2007
  1. "The Killing Ground"

    "Prey/Allelujah"

25 February 2008

Limited edition enhanced CD single: Mute / MUTE 372 (UK)

  1. "Prey" –
  2. "Prey" -
  3. "Allelujah"
  4. "Allelujah"