Replicas: Vinyl LP Sufjan Stevens The album brought them to

The album brought them to international audiences informed by the post-punk ethic of simplicity that chimed with their classic West Coast melodic pop

they entered a new musical phase as they navigated and developed songs that were just weeks old

Mike Skinner constructed an album with an on-going narrative that was by turns hilarious

but coupled with the film

It is weird music

Replicas: Vinyl LP Sufjan Stevens The album brought them toThe song 'Are Friends' Electric?' was a surprise number one UK hit single and this album was a huge breakthrough. 'Replicas' began as a concept album, based on a book that Numan never completed about a futuristic metropolis where androids with cloned human skin called 'Machmen' team up with machines to keep citizens controlled under fear and force.