Replicas is the second and final album by British band
Tubeway Army, released in 1979. It followed their
self-titled debut from the previous year. After this, Tubeway Army frontman
Gary Numan would continue to release records under his own name, though the musicians in Tubeway Army would continue to work with him for some time.
Replicas was the first album of what Numan later termed the "machine" phase of his career, preceding
The Pleasure Principle and
Telekon, a collection linked by common themes of a
dystopian science fiction future and
transmutation of man/machine, coupled with an
androgynous image and a synthetic rock sound.