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Debaser wrote: I don't know if it's worth starting a thread for this, but Q Magazine appears to have a 21 page special on NO. Out 25 August. I guess there will be a few of these articles coming out to coincide with Music Complete.
q mag
we tell the complete story of New Order with an extended, special interview offering new insights and revelations from all of the group’s members, present and past.
There's a radio program as well: Sunday Night Music Club
Nice four star review in the new Q magazine.
'Their best record in a quarter of a century'.
It sounds like most of the tracks, except Restless and Academic, are dance orientated.
pete13 wrote: Nice four star review in the new Q magazine.
'Their best record in a quarter of a century'.
It sounds like most of the tracks, except Restless and Academic, are dance orientated.
Jeepers. I'll take an album that's better than Get Ready and Republic any day (two of the better efforts to me)
Brian Barker wrote: I just checked out my credit card and saw that there is a pending transaction done on the 8/15 for my pre order. ( I placed the order the day this was announced ), maybe more information will be coming soon!
i had to completely redo my order after the previous one was cancelled.
looks like they still have the boxed set available.
still, a hassle to order it again.
later -1
pete13 wrote: 'Their best record in a quarter of a century'.
Fuck, even better than the three-in-25-years efforts spawning 'Liar', 'Rock The Shack' and 'Working Overtime' respectively? This is gonna be AWESOME.
Debaser wrote: Q Magazine appears to have a 21 page special on NO. Out 25 August. I guess there will be a few of these articles coming out to coincide with Music Complete.
Yup, for every new NO album there are 4,726 retrospectives and 8,251,395 compilations. I counted.
pete13 wrote: Nice four star review in the new Q magazine.
I hope I'm wrong on this but thought it might be worth mentioning. I've noticed that magazines like Q that do big features on bands (the now defunct REM springs to mind) tend to give kinder reviews than they otherwise would. I.e, a big interview with Michael Stipe = an extra star in the review. Even on their crapper later albums. Sounds like NO cooperated with Q on their 21 page special, so I can't help thinking it might have otherwise only been a three star review. But let me emphasise I do hope Im wrong!
Looked for the Q issue yesterday after seeing some had obtained a copy.No luck.Guess it's the old London thing of getting new issues of magazines ahead of the rest of the country.I'll try again later this week.
As re the reviewing thing i remember when WFTSC came out in 2005 NME found themselves in the quite difficult position of whether to give the album a good review or not when they'd awarded New Order the Godlike Genius Award just a month or so previously.Think the reviewer tiptoed very diplomatically around the fact the album wasn't very good lol
It's nice to see all the anticipation over the release. People are reviewing the reviews of the album they haven't heard.
Andy wrote:
There's a radio program as well: Sunday Night Music Club
The radio programme was absolute pish. The dj and her sidekick talked briefly for a couple of minutes about New Order and the new issue of Q then went off on a tangent talking about Madonna and Bjork for some reason then they played Restless.And that was it. No interview with New Order or anything.Don't waste your time looking it up on catch up online.
Fotzepolitic wrote: Looked for the Q issue yesterday after seeing some had obtained a copy.No luck.Guess it's the old London thing of getting new issues of magazines ahead of the rest of the country.I'll try again later this week.
The official street date is 25 Aug, so suspect you're right about London getting early distribution. When I first moved to London from the north west in 1989, couldn't believe it when I found the NME on sale on Tuesday afternoons having had a life time of seeing it on Wednesday (at the earliest!).
I'd really like not hearing the album til release day but i doubt that will happen. The Guardian and maybe others sometimes put up streams of a whole album a week or two before release - The XX's last album and i think Leftfield's most recent spring to mind.Resisting the urge to click and listen will be nigh on impossible.I didn't hear Get Ready until i got my hands on the CD the day it was released but can't see that ever happening again.
Only been back a day and already I've been slagged by a Pom about cricket and CTB has called me a tart rather than gobbed them.
Is this some sort of parallel universe I've stepped into?
At this rate the album's shaping up to be a peach!
dC
PS Greetings lads! When's Huntsman untubing the Pringles?
depthcharge wrote: Only been back a day and already I've been slagged by a Pom about cricket and CTB has called me a tart rather than gobbed them.
Is this some sort of parallel universe I've stepped into?
At this rate the album's shaping up to be a peach!
dC
PS Greetings lads! When's Huntsman untubing the Pringles?
There's hardly anybody left who remembers Huntsman! that's how much things have changed. Unless he's reincarnated himself as Michael Monkhouse.
Good to have you back.
JG wrote:
There's hardly anybody left who remembers Huntsman! that's how much things have changed. Unless he's reincarnated himself as Michael Monkhouse.
Good to have you back.
Nice to be back, JG.
The strength of that Quietus review might see me drop in a bit more!
See you down here for the summer tour with your big grumpy mate.
dC
So no word on any reviewer's copies getting leaked yet? There's both the album and the single with remixes out there.
It would be very exciting to hear them early.
The packaging and the artwork looks so beautiful, can't wait to feel it on my fingers and look at it when it comes to my house.
Sage_ wrote: So no word on any reviewer's copies getting leaked yet? There's both the album and the single with remixes out there.
It would be very exciting to hear them early.
Nowt yet i don't expect there will be for a while if at all.I reckon Mute have got it all nailed shut.Very professional operation going on at the moment. In incredibly sharp contrast to pre the release of Waiting For the Sirens' Call in 2005.I "acquired" that album about 6 weeks before release day.Mute know what they're doing alright.
made a PDF of just the new order part from Q magazine.
very good interview.
let me know if anyone's interested in the link.
later -1
negative1 wrote: made a PDF of just the new order part from Q magazine.
very good interview.
let me know if anyone's interested in the link.
later -1
Yes please!
ZASmusic wrote:
negative1 wrote: made a PDF of just the new order part from Q magazine.
very good interview.
let me know if anyone's interested in the link.
later -1
Yes please!
check your pm.
excerpts here: http://forums.neworderonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=18219#post18219
later -1
After hearing a clutch of tracks, I'm going to predict this record will excite quite a few people here.
Surely their most diverse album ever.
depthcharge wrote: After hearing a clutch of tracks, I'm going to predict this record will excite quite a few people here.
Surely their most diverse album ever.
That is great that you got to hear the album, I can't wait to listen to it to, if you don't mind me asking how did you get to listen to it , was it a listening party or a promo, Thanks
Linus Solanki wrote: how did you get to listen to it , was it a listening party or a promo, Thanks
Seconded. Also I wonder if Mr Steinomite is reading this? His friend was due to hear the whole album at some point. I wonder if that has happened now. Incidentally the guy from the Quietus who did the track by track review claimed he listened to the album at Mute HQ and didn't have a promo. But I guess he might have said that to stop people potentially nagging him for a listen...
Debaser wrote:
Linus Solanki wrote: how did you get to listen to it , was it a listening party or a promo, Thanks
Seconded. Also I wonder if Mr Steinomite is reading this? His friend was due to hear the whole album at some point. I wonder if that has happened now. Incidentally the guy from the Quietus who did the track by track review claimed he listened to the album at Mute HQ and didn't have a promo. But I guess he might have said that to stop people potentially nagging him for a listen...
I suspect Luke Turner from The Quietus was telling the truth. Seems like Mute has averted early leaks by really limiting physical promos.
I've only heard the album versions of Plastic, Tutti Frutti, Superheated and Stray Dog so far and that was via a stream.
depthcharge wrote:
I suspect Luke Turner from The Quietus was telling the truth. Seems like Mute has averted early leaks by really limiting physical promos.
I've only heard the album versions of Plastic, Tutti Frutti, Superheated and Stray Dog so far and that was via a stream.
...and what were your thoughts of them, Beardy?
Plastic: Epic 7min high-NRG Moroder-style synth workout; catchy-yet-caustic lyrics "You're fantastic, You're so special, So iconic"; a little Hooky nostalgia kicks in during the Chapman solo; banging last third that goes a bit "I Feel Love" Patrick Cowley at the breakdown; closest track that springs to mind is the Mac Quayle "GIAUE" mix.
Tutti Frutti: Mid-tempo housey-stomper that bounces between Technique and Republic; booming "Spooky"/"Fine Time"-style deep filtered vocal launches it "Tuuuuutti Fruuuuutti"; those distinctive Republic/Raise the Pressure-era female vocals return to sugarcoat the chorus; back to the naff, contemplative lyrics "Where every scholar, needs a dollar"; La Roux breaks out into a little verse at the end and sounds right at home, clocks in at 6:30 or so.
Superheated: Plays like a Killers' retro pop-rock excursion tricked out by New Order; sort of wistful tone to it with Barney doing the heavy verse work and Brandon joining in for the sing-along chorus "Girl you've got me hanging, Like a bird out on a wire!"; something like an uptempo Turn My Way; overblown orchestrations sweep over towards the end; the whole thing probably sounds like a shambles and yet, somehow they pull it off.
Stray Dog: They've really taken it off the reservation here; Iggy does ambling, gravelly, Cohen-style vocals over moody guitars nicked from the Salvation! soundtrack.
My gut feel is because they've cast such a wide net, most fans will get snagged somewhere. The post-Factory fans will be all over it. Us vintage grumps just have to concede now and give up on PC&L part II. I was intrigued by "Singularity", but disillusioned by "Restless", and now this lot has me buzzed to hear the entirety.
depthcharge wrote:
Stray Dog: They've really taken it off the reservation here; Iggy does ambling, gravelly, Cohen-style vocals over moody guitars nicked from the Salvation! soundtrack.
So is Iggys vocal comparable to what he did on this Death In Vegas track?
