{"id":3953,"date":"2015-10-19T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2015-11-16T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:00:52","slug":"new-order-music-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/new-order-music-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"New Order <br>Music Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/new_order-music_complete.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3954 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/new_order-music_complete.jpg\" alt=\"New Order, Music Complete\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/new_order-music_complete.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/new_order-music_complete-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>With New Order having parted ways with Peter Hook, whose melodic basslines have long been a signature component of the band\u2019s sound, and having seen a markedly uninspired live performance a few years ago, my expectations for a new album weren\u2019t particularly high. Indeed, <i>Lost Sirens<\/i>, an album of outtakes from the sessions that produced 2005\u2019s <i>Waiting for the Sirens\u2019 Call<\/i>, is probably the most solid collection of music the band has released in years, aside from the plethora of greatest hits collections they\u2019ve put out over the last two decades, of course.<\/p>\n<p>As much as compromise is lauded as a worthy goal in most situations, when it comes to creative endeavors, it frequently leads to the best ideas being squashed in an effort to accommodate different points of view. I suspect that mediocre albums like <i>Get Ready<\/i> and <i>Waiting for the Sirens\u2019 Call<\/i> were the result of singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner and Hook attempting to put aside their differences. With Hooky now out of the picture, though, Sumner\u2019s ideas have no doubt been given free reign, and however nice it would be to have the original lineup intact, it\u2019s perhaps for the best as <i>Music Complete<\/i> (Mute Records), despite the horrible title, is New Order\u2019s strongest record since <i>Technique<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Sumner was long the yin favoring electronics to Hook\u2019s rock-leaning yang, and that is readily apparent on <i>Music Complete<\/i>, with cuts like \u201cPlastic\u201d and \u201cOn the High Line\u201d pulsating with ecstatic energy and club-ready beats and melancholic closer \u201cSuperheated\u201d comprised of layers of synth. But it has always been the push and pull between the organic\u2014Sumner\u2019s ringing guitar notes and dry vocals, in particular\u2014and the synthetic that has made New Order pop music\u2019s greatest anomaly. Such is the case here as well. \u201cRestless,\u201d the album\u2019s lead single and leadoff track, follows in the tradition of songs like \u201cTrue Faith\u201d and \u201cRound and Round,\u201d blending emotional lyricism, synthesized atmospherics, and guitar hooks into the post-modern pop equivalent of a soft serve ice cream\u2014sweeter and smoother than the original incarnation while retaining the morphic resonance. Similarly, \u201cSingularity,\u201d which adds minor chords into the formula, at once recalls the gloom of <i>Movement<\/i>, when the ghost of Joy Division still hung over them, and the freneticism of later records like <i>Brotherhood<\/i>. Even \u201cStray Dog,\u201d a pairing of moody backing and spoken word courtesy of Iggy Pop that could easily have fallen flat on its face had it been more clumsily done, is evocative and memorable. Overall, there seems to be no logical reason why the band should have created an album this good at this point in its lifespan, but <i>Music Complete<\/i> is New Order at its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With New Order having parted ways with Peter Hook, whose melodic basslines have long been a signature component of the band\u2019s sound, and having<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,618,44],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-mute-records","tag-new-order"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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