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New Order returns with their eighth studio album in the spring, and join the class of 2005 by taking their inspiration from... classic New Order.
Recorded over the past year, "Waiting For The Sirens Call" is divided between guitar tracks in the vein of previous album "Get Ready" and the synth-based tracks that are their trademark. NME can confirm it's their best album since "Technique". A single, likely to be "Jetstream", will be released in advance and, as normal, sleeve art will be designed by Peter Saville.
Bernard Sumner told NME: "The last album was guitar-heavy simply because we felt that we'd left that instrument alone for a long time and we thought that was what the general trend was and what people wanted to hear. But when we started doing live gigs, we found that people got off on the more dance-oriented and synth stuff just as much. This album really splits into two halves. It's a mixture of two, because that's what New Order fans like."
Recorded over the past year, "Waiting For The Sirens Call" is divided between guitar tracks in the vein of previous album "Get Ready" and the synth-based tracks that are their trademark. NME can confirm it's their best album since "Technique". A single, likely to be "Jetstream", will be released in advance and, as normal, sleeve art will be designed by Peter Saville.
Bernard Sumner told NME: "The last album was guitar-heavy simply because we felt that we'd left that instrument alone for a long time and we thought that was what the general trend was and what people wanted to hear. But when we started doing live gigs, we found that people got off on the more dance-oriented and synth stuff just as much. This album really splits into two halves. It's a mixture of two, because that's what New Order fans like."
New Order returns with their eighth studio album in the spring, and join the class of 2005 by taking their inspiration from... classic New Order.
Recorded over the past year, "Waiting For The Sirens Call" is divided between guitar tracks in the vein of previous album "Get Ready" and the synth-based tracks that are their trademark. NME can confirm it's their best album since "Technique". A single, likely to be "Jetstream", will be released in advance and, as normal, sleeve art will be designed by Peter Saville.
Bernard Sumner told NME: "The last album was guitar-heavy simply because we felt that we'd left that instrument alone for a long time and we thought that was what the general trend was and what people wanted to hear. But when we started doing live gigs, we found that people got off on the more dance-oriented and synth stuff just as much. This album really splits into two halves. It's a mixture of two, because that's what New Order fans like."
The album also marks the consolidation of New Order as a unit after the cautious nature of "Get Ready" - which had been their first album after a bitter eight-year hiatus.
Said Sumner: "Let's not beat about the bush, we did fall out with each others. We didn't actually split up, but we did fall out. But I'd challenge anyone to go through what we went through and not fall out with each other. You're compressed together like sardines for years on end, and eventually somebody's bound to react."
The band also took the chance to blow one particular myth out of the water. "They claimed that we had to change some of our songs because The Killers." said drummer Stephen Morris, "Which is a rumour started by The Killers!"
Recorded over the past year, "Waiting For The Sirens Call" is divided between guitar tracks in the vein of previous album "Get Ready" and the synth-based tracks that are their trademark. NME can confirm it's their best album since "Technique". A single, likely to be "Jetstream", will be released in advance and, as normal, sleeve art will be designed by Peter Saville.
Bernard Sumner told NME: "The last album was guitar-heavy simply because we felt that we'd left that instrument alone for a long time and we thought that was what the general trend was and what people wanted to hear. But when we started doing live gigs, we found that people got off on the more dance-oriented and synth stuff just as much. This album really splits into two halves. It's a mixture of two, because that's what New Order fans like."
The album also marks the consolidation of New Order as a unit after the cautious nature of "Get Ready" - which had been their first album after a bitter eight-year hiatus.
Said Sumner: "Let's not beat about the bush, we did fall out with each others. We didn't actually split up, but we did fall out. But I'd challenge anyone to go through what we went through and not fall out with each other. You're compressed together like sardines for years on end, and eventually somebody's bound to react."
The band also took the chance to blow one particular myth out of the water. "They claimed that we had to change some of our songs because The Killers." said drummer Stephen Morris, "Which is a rumour started by The Killers!"
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