Music Complete: Reviews

The excitement is really killing me, can't wait to listen to the album, I guess one more month before we get to listen to it. plus the Japanese Bonus track.

JG wrote:

Hitting the newstands in London this weekend were new editions of all the three main UK music monthlys....Q, Uncut and Mojo. Each carried a positive review of Music Complete and contained the same message......this is the best New Order album since Technique.

Here's a summary of their ratings:

Mojo - 4 stars.....'ninth album lays claim to iconic status'

Q - 4 stars......includes a 20 page feature article, part historic and part focussed on the new LP which is commented on elsewhere on this forum. Well worth getting.

Uncut - 7/10.......'easily New Order's best album since Technique and their most diverse ever'

It's encouraging that three established music writers have all formed pretty much the same conclusion and are consistent in their praise.

Thanks for posting! How many stars for Mojo & Q rank out of (5, 4, or something else?)

Hey everyone. I think Linus is excited about new New Order music! I don't know if he can wait though. Just sayin....

Linus Solanki wrote: The excitement is really killing me, can't wait to listen to the album, I guess one more month before we get to listen to it.

I agree with you and can't wait to listen to the album also.

That sounds great, can't wait to listen to the full album, the excitement is killing me, still have to wait 6 more weeks.

Great to hear Bernards voice again, good single not bad at all, very excited to hear the new album.

Can't wait to hear it and very excited about it, Let's hope the single release comes with some remixes and a B-side.

They are still capable of making great music even at this age and stage in life.

Thanks it sounds good, can't wait for the whole album, I don't know how I will get through waiting till sept to hear the whole thing, really super excited for the album.

waiting till sept to hear something seem too long for me.

Great News, great news for a boring monday, very excited to hear it.

Great news and can't wait for it

That is amazing that your friend is getting to listen to the new album already, he is very lucky.

Very good news

I am very excited to hear it, summer can't come soon, hopefully we will hear a single pretty soon.

Great News, very excited to hear the new stuff.

So the guy's excited. Why not collect all the negative crap people continually post? Does Michael Monkhouse, for instance, even like New Order?!

LostSiren wrote: So the guy's excited. Why not collect all the negative crap people continually post? Does Michael Monkhouse, for instance, even like New Order?!

I didn't say he was wrong to be excited. I'm just having some fun. No offence intended.

LostSiren wrote: Does Michael Monkhouse, for instance, even like New Order?!

Sounds like we need a poll. So..

Does Michael Monkhouse even like New Order?

A - Yes

B- No

C- There is no poll function on this forum.

The Quietus review: Track by Track HERE. Has he got all the track titles correct? Or have they changed some?

People on the High Line = New York Deli? Nothing but a Fool = Unkle? Superheated = 172?

The review sounds very good to me, only a month away from now or maybe even earlier.

Linus Solanki wrote: The review sounds very good to me, only a month away from now or maybe even earlier.

I'll admit it: I'm disappointed you didn't say you're excited for the new album

LostSiren wrote:

Linus Solanki wrote: The review sounds very good to me, only a month away from now or maybe even earlier.

I'll admit it: I'm disappointed you didn't say you're excited for the new album

loll, ok I will say it, I am really excited to listen to it and the waiting is driving me crazy.

Well... that Quietus review is getting me a bit excited...

I really like Restless, yet I want to hear stuff that's more BANGING, so if the album tracks are better than Restless AND feature far more in your face electronics, I'm sold.

Anyone else already feeling that Mr Morris really wanted to stamp his mark on this album? More so than on the last few?

And that "weak" track... Academic... is that the guitar track that they've released a YouTube clip of already? If so... I'm liking that as well. A lot. There might even be no weak tracks on the album for me at this rate... for the first time since... when? Technique?

JG wrote: Some great quotes from Luke in that review..

Oh JG, you had me at "Restless is the weakest"!

I've read that some cats here are enjoying it but for me it's a clunker with ropier-than-ever lyrics.

My fear was if they were releasing the best track on the album, what unholy mess did we have in the wings? But it appears they might have, somehow, in true NO style, done the opposite.

Whoosh! Just laid down some notes for the deluxe vinyl set.

dC

Picked up the Q issue and Mojo today.Couldn't find Uncut, will try another day. The 20 pager in Q looks ace, one or two old photos i've never seen.Will read the full feature this evening. Was going to just read the Mojo review in the shop but saw they have a 2 page special on all the Cocteau Twins albums so had to buy it!

Well I imagine after these reviews everyone on this forum is getting extremely excited. Good to see respectable sites like quietus are enjoying the album. If restless is the worst track then this album is going to be pretty damn good as I love restless even if as somebody says on the comments on the quietus for the fat and over 50's!

For the record Michael Monkhouse must be a new order obsessive judging by the number of comments he has made on this site,ctwisted or otherwise. I bet he is more excited than Linus for the new album

The Shadow wrote: Well I imagine after these reviews everyone on this forum is getting extremely excited. Good to see respectable sites like quietus are enjoying the album. If restless is the worst track then this album is going to be pretty damn good as I love restless even if as somebody says on the comments on the quietus for the fat and over 50's!

For the record Michael Monkhouse must be a new order obsessive judging by the number of comments he has made on this site,ctwisted or otherwise. I bet he is more excited than Linus for the new album

Chances are, Monkhouse is currently engorged with excitement. Don't worry, he'll get a hold of himself.

Got the Uncut review today.It's the most gushing of the 3 magazine reviews so far, and also the longest at a pretty much full page. The Q one and the Mojo one though very positive were maybe a little short.

"Among its rich, eclectic, 65 minute sprawl, Music Complete contains a couple of contenders for the canon of all time New Order greats.One is the gold plated, weapons grade Eurodisco anthem Plastic.It's vivid, acid house plumage wrapped around a rubberised spine of Moroder esque electro.Meanwhile Sumner's deceptively warm vocal taps into his inner seam of sulky Salford sarcasm "You're so special/So iconic" he croons repeatedly before the killer kiss-off line "You're like plastic/so artificial/you don't mean nothing baby/so superficial" It's bitchy.It's trashy.It's fantastic."

"Another potential future classic is the roaringly romantic "Nothing But A Fool" .... A warm endorphin rush of jingle jangle guitars and softly glowing synths swimming around an inescapibly Hooky-ish bassline, this is vintage autumnal New Order, falling somewhere between the heart bruised majesty of Regret and the underrated, Springsteen sized Waiting For the Sirens' Call"

From that description i've got a feeling Nothing But A Fool is the second teaser snippet they released.I maybe proved wrong of course but the "warm endorphin rush of jingle jangle guitars and softly glowing synths" would seem to fit, no?

Fotzepolitic wrote: Got the Uncut review today.It's the most gushing of the lot so far, and also the longest at a pretty much full page. The Q one and the Mojo one though very positive were maybe a little short.

"Among its rich, eclectic, 65 minute sprawl, Music Complete contains a couple of contenders for the canon of all time New Order greats"

Wow the build up for me is getting crazy high to listen to the album, I would even be happy with the 30 second clips on Amazon now.

Also a short interview with Steve.

one snippet "Because we weren't working with Hooky this time, we had to think about it more.I think it helped, really, it makes you work a bit harder"

It almost feels and seems now like Hooky has been holding them back the last few albums. Hi Hooky

"New Order have never been a convincing rock band but they are often a brilliantly perverse pop band.And sometimes, just sometimes, a great soul band"

Yep. I've often found it soul music.

Fotzepolitic wrote: Got the Uncut review today.It's the most gushing of the 3 magazine reviews so far, and also the longest at a pretty much full page. The Q one and the Mojo one though very positive were maybe a little short.

"Among its rich, eclectic, 65 minute sprawl, Music Complete contains a couple of contenders for the canon of all time New Order greats.One is the gold plated, weapons grade Eurodisco anthem Plastic.It's vivid, acid house plumage wrapped around a rubberised spine of Moroder esque electro.Meanwhile Sumner's deceptively warm vocal taps into his inner seam of sulky Salford sarcasm "You're so special/So iconic" he croons repeatedly before the killer kiss-off line "You're like plastic/so artificial/you don't mean nothing baby/so superficial" It's bitchy.It's trashy.It's fantastic."

"Another potential future classic is the roaringly romantic "Nothing But A Fool" .... A warm endorphin rush of jingle jangle guitars and softly glowing synths swimming around an inescapibly Hooky-ish bassline, this is vintage autumnal New Order, falling somewhere between the heart bruised majesty of Regret and the underrated, Springsteen sized Waiting For the Sirens' Call"

From that description i've got a feeling Nothing But A Fool is the second teaser snippet they released.I maybe proved wrong of course but the "warm endorphin rush of jingle jangle guitars and softly glowing synths" would seem to fit, no?

When I first heard Plastic I couldn't get Peter Hook out of my mind.

Fotzepolitic wrote: From that description i've got a feeling Nothing But A Fool is the second teaser snippet they released.I maybe proved wrong of course but the "warm endorphin rush of jingle jangle guitars and softly glowing synths" would seem to fit, no?

I thought Steve identified clip 2 (or clip 3 if we include the 8 second Restless teaser) as "Unlearn This Hatred" on the Radcliffe & Maconie show a couple of weeks back. Or did I just imagine that?

Linus Solanki wrote:

Fotzepolitic wrote: Got the Uncut review today.It's the most gushing of the lot so far, and also the longest at a pretty much full page. The Q one and the Mojo one though very positive were maybe a little short.

"Among its rich, eclectic, 65 minute sprawl, Music Complete contains a couple of contenders for the canon of all time New Order greats"

Wow the build up for me is getting crazy high to listen to the album, I would even be happy with the 30 second clips on Amazon now.

I suggest cold showers.

edspess wrote:

Fotzepolitic wrote: From that description i've got a feeling Nothing But A Fool is the second teaser snippet they released.I maybe proved wrong of course but the "warm endorphin rush of jingle jangle guitars and softly glowing synths" would seem to fit, no?

I thought Steve identified clip 2 (or clip 3 if we include the 8 second Restless teaser) as "Unlearn This Hatred" on the Radcliffe & Maconie show a couple of weeks back. Or did I just imagine that?

Well, Steve identified on Radcliffe & Maconie this clip (no.3) as Unlearn this Hatred

This clip (no.2) i reckon is Nothing But A Fool ("warm endorphin rush of jingle jangle guitars and softly glowing synths" ) Though as i said i may be wrong

Though it gets complicated as the intro to Restless was technically the 1st clip but the Singularity clip is numbered as 1st though really it was the 2nd

We've heard live versions of Plastic and Singularity already. They're decent but I'm not sure they're as good as the reviewers have said they are...

I like the download of restless they give out for the pre-order. Differs from the video and makes it more complete.

When one is older than the hills it is easy to wait. And another favorite supergiant,David Gilmour has a new album the week before. I am grateful I have lived to see and hear them and thank them for their achievements