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Strange Charm is the eighth solo studio album by the English musician Gary Numan, originally released in November 1986, it was Numan's third release on his self-owned Numa Records label. The album was not released in the United States until 1999 when it was issued in a digitally remastered form with five bonus tracks by Cleopatra Records. In the same year it was also reissued with bonus tracks in the United Kingdom by Eagle Records. Strange Charm was the last studio album released on his self-owned Numa Records label before he signed a recording contract with I.R.S. Records (he would later release two more studio albums on Numa in the 1990s). Unlike most of his previous studio albums, Strange Charm is a fragmented release with no obvious theme on it, either musically or lyrically, although the lyrics of the opening track "My Breathing" refer to "The Sleeproom," the title of another song in the album. The majority of the album was produced by the Wave Team, who had produced most of Numan's previous offering, The Fury (1985), and continued in a style similar to the previous studio album (with liberal use of saxophone, programmed beats, and female backing vocals). However, two of the album's stand-out tracks, "My Breathing" and "New Thing from London Town", were produced by Ade Orange and Bill Sharpe and Nick Smith, respectively, and offer a departure from the industrial sound of the rest of the album into quite different atmospheres.