Post by ManicKangaroo on Jan 13, 2005 0:48:27 GMT 1
New Order unveiled their new album to the UK music industry at a series of playbacks in London on Monday afternoon.
The album, their eighth, and the first since 2001's Get Ready, is called Waiting For The Sirens Call.
It had been rumoured to be a pure dance album, along the lines of 1989's Technique, but in fact mixes dance tracks with rockier songs.
Written in Manchester and recorded in Manchester, Liverpool and London, the record was produced by Stephen Street.
The playback was introduced by Warners MD Korda Marshall, who said the band plan to release three singles from the album: Krafty - one of the more electronic numbers, the title track and the poppy Jetstream Lover, which features Scissor Sisters' Ana Matronic.
Several tracks press all the right classic New Order buttons ie, great bassline, wistful vocals, endearingly appalling lyrics, and the final track of the record sounded like the Stooges.
According to Channel 4 Teletext, Waiting For The Sirens Call is an album of the year contender with 9 out of 11 potential singles.
It's dancier than "Get Ready" with unusually sweet vocals by Bernard Sumner, notably on Waiting For The Sirens Call and post-club comedown tale Morning Night And Day.
It also mentions Jetstream (with Scissor Sisters Ana matronic on vocals), saying it has a nursery rhyme chorus while the final track Working Overtime sees New Order go glam rock to astonishing effect.
The album, their eighth, and the first since 2001's Get Ready, is called Waiting For The Sirens Call.
It had been rumoured to be a pure dance album, along the lines of 1989's Technique, but in fact mixes dance tracks with rockier songs.
Written in Manchester and recorded in Manchester, Liverpool and London, the record was produced by Stephen Street.
The playback was introduced by Warners MD Korda Marshall, who said the band plan to release three singles from the album: Krafty - one of the more electronic numbers, the title track and the poppy Jetstream Lover, which features Scissor Sisters' Ana Matronic.
Several tracks press all the right classic New Order buttons ie, great bassline, wistful vocals, endearingly appalling lyrics, and the final track of the record sounded like the Stooges.
According to Channel 4 Teletext, Waiting For The Sirens Call is an album of the year contender with 9 out of 11 potential singles.
It's dancier than "Get Ready" with unusually sweet vocals by Bernard Sumner, notably on Waiting For The Sirens Call and post-club comedown tale Morning Night And Day.
It also mentions Jetstream (with Scissor Sisters Ana matronic on vocals), saying it has a nursery rhyme chorus while the final track Working Overtime sees New Order go glam rock to astonishing effect.
