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Album Review
by SashaS
27-8-2001
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New Order: 'Get Ready'
(London/Warners)
New Order turn the clock back to catch up with its future eight years down the road
Eight years apart and things couldn’t look worse. New Order’s last album, ‘Republic’, came out in 1993 and it looked like that would be it despite of never officially disbanded. The four principal members – Bernard Sumner, Peter ‘Hooky’ Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert – have put their differences aside to produce an album that should satisfy not only the old fans but quite a few admirers of the guests’ outfits, such as ‘Turn My Way’ being stamped with the Smashing Pumpkins’ identity and not solely due to Billy Corgan’s vocal.
‘Rock The Shack’ is nodding to the Primal Scream’s ‘Shoot Speed Kill Light’ (from the ‘Xtrmntr’ album) with Bobby Gillespie taking over the vocal; Sumner and Gillespie first got together for ‘Out Of Control’ on the Chemical Brothers’ album ‘Surrender’. (The Chemi-Bros were rumoured to be re-working ‘Close Range’ but it was never planned for inclusion on the album.) One more piece of music on the new CD is intriguing: ‘Slow Jam’ recalls the Brit-rocking days of the fellow Manchurians, Oasis.
The first single from ‘Get Ready’, ‘Crystal’, is a bridging song to the New Order of yore, with ‘Primitive Notion’ able to satisfy even the original fans, that of their earlier incarnation as Joy Division. For football lovers, there is ‘Player In The League’, a successor to the band’s footie-anthem ‘World In Motion’ from 1990, the band’s only chart-topper domestically, and probably the most embarrassing moment on the whole album.
Still, ‘Get Ready’ witnesses New Order back on track, rocking and yet dance-based, the model they actually helped to establish, a respectable addition to the rather lean year of quality releases. And yet, after years of individual projects that hardly mattered, this is like back to the future.
6/10
SashaS
17-5-2005
New Order play two dates in Manchester Apollo, Glasgow Barrowlands and Brixton Academy each but all are sold out; the third London has been on 12 October.
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