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BILLBOARD'S REVIEW OF GET READY
New Order's "Get Ready" (Reprise) includes "Crystal," which is No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music: Club Play chart. "Time's a great healer," frontman Bernard Sumner says of the group's first album since 1993's "Republic." "It made me remember the good things about being in New Order, not just the bad."
A nod to the group's rock roots -- New Order formed in 1980 from the ashes of hallowed post-punk act Joy Division -- "Get Ready" is more guitar-inflected than New Order's previous two sets, which were dominated by synthesizers and club beats. Ex-Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and Primal Scream members Bobby Gillespie and Innes guest on the album.
The group rocks hard on likely second single "60 Miles An Hour," the dark "Primitive Notion," and "Rock the Shack." A North American tour is planned for early next year, but Sumner refrains from looking too far into the future. "When the group started working again, we decided we'd take it one day at a time. We'd do one concert, if we liked that, we'd do another. If we liked the concerts, we'd do an album. If we like the album, we'd tour, and so forth. We've never been a band to plan too far ahead."
A nod to the group's rock roots -- New Order formed in 1980 from the ashes of hallowed post-punk act Joy Division -- "Get Ready" is more guitar-inflected than New Order's previous two sets, which were dominated by synthesizers and club beats. Ex-Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and Primal Scream members Bobby Gillespie and Innes guest on the album.
The group rocks hard on likely second single "60 Miles An Hour," the dark "Primitive Notion," and "Rock the Shack." A North American tour is planned for early next year, but Sumner refrains from looking too far into the future. "When the group started working again, we decided we'd take it one day at a time. We'd do one concert, if we liked that, we'd do another. If we liked the concerts, we'd do an album. If we like the album, we'd tour, and so forth. We've never been a band to plan too far ahead."
From the NewOrderOnline archive.
