SubHuman


SubHuman is the sixth 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, Shunt. "subHuman" was released on 9 July 2007, in Europe and 14 August 2007, in the US. It was made available in several formats, including standard CD, gatefold vinyl, and a special CD/DVD edition. The CD/DVD edition featured stereo, 5.1 surround, and exclusive "ambient" mixes. Additionally, the DVD included all music videos that were produced at the time of the album's 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 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:
  • High-quality 24-bit and 48 kHz recording of subHuman
  • 5.1 DTS and AC3 surround sound versions of subHuman
  • Exclusive ambient re-working of subHuman also in 24-bit/48 kHz quality
  • Music promo videos:
  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" – 5:56
  2. "Prey"

    Download: Mute / iMUTE 372 (UK)

  3. "Prey" – 5:56

    Download: Mute / LiMute 372 (UK)

  4. "Prey" – 5:56
  5. "Prey" – 3:56
  6. "Prey" – 6:11
  7. "Prey" – 8:03

    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"