New Order announce details of 10th album, Music Complete

The group’s first album without Peter Hook features additional production from Stuart Price and the Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands.

New Album Announcement

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ok, just ordered the deluxe boxset. very cool looking.


I wonder if they will put the extended versions on CD. Doubt it, maybe digital, but even then.

Not to worry, i will be digitizing my tracks.

if you are ordering the boxset, let me know, and you don't have to worry about it.


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i remember when the 12x12 vinyl set came out, unless you found some rare promo cd's, most of those tracks never made it onto cd either.

or even released digitally.

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Yeah but if the music's good...
I said, 'Hello, Paul McCartney.' He said, 'Hi hi hi.'

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To me you can hear the very obvious Tom Rowlands input in that 30 second snippet of Singularity. But, much like Here To Stay which that snippet has a passing resemblance to i'm not completely swayed on that being a good thing. In the music news bit on the Radcliffe & Maconie show on BBC 6Music on Tuesday they were talking about the announcement of the new album and played the Singularity snippet which Maconie described as "very EDM" which was alarming but i could see his point. I just hope the "heavy electronic sound" on the album doesn't just simply sound , even if it's great, like it could have been made by anyone .

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Hard to get your head around the idea but this might mark a remarkable new start for New Order.I mean, yeah i'm being incredibly optimistic i know but it might turn out to be one of their best ever albums which would be remarkable for any band so late into their careers.Sorry, it's Saturday evening and i'm in an optimistic mood.

You know I think Chemical Brothers are one of the best electronic artists to have have emerged from the house/dance scene of the 90's. Their debut album, Exit Planet Dust is 20 years old this month and still sounds great. 2010's Further was as good as that (and probably more acomplished).
I'm looking forward to Born In the Echoes (out July 17th). So quite frankly I would have been happy to have even more Tom Rowlands involvement.

EDM is a term that the Americans have coined and tends to cover cheesy 'celebratory' artists like Avicii, Calvin Harris and Steve Aoiki. It's unfair to lump the Chems in with those guys. Funnily enough the Chems discussed this yesterday in an interview with the Observer.

NO have decided to make a more electronic album this time around. When was the last time the band actually sounded fresh or ahead of the game in that genre? 1987? Maybe '89? By the time of Republic, tracks like World were just about keeping pace with what was going on. I don't blame them for seeking outside help, and I wonder if they could have actually worked with other electronic people in order to keep things fresh. Artists such as Daniel Avery (best electronic/dance album of 2013 IMO) and Ghost Culture, both signed to Erol Alkan's Phantasy label spring to mind as being creative and exciting, without being "EDM".

Anyway the album is done, I guess we're in the waiting & speculation phase at the moment. Fingers crossed.

No don't get me wrong i like the Chemical Brothers a lot though have kind of lost track of them after the We Are The Night album in 2007 but i have all their albums up to and including that one. Not actually heard the more recent albums. I watched the live stream of their gig at Glastonbury last night - wow, they ( or was it just Tom Rowlands on his own last night?) were magnificent, the music and visuals were mind blowing( watch the full set here ) and it looked like the best crowd atmosphere than anything else i watched of the Glastonbury coverage all weekend i reckon. They put and still put on the best show out of all those electronic artists that emerged in the 90s ( though i've never actually never seen them live but have watched a lot of the videos like the Don't Think film) I saw Orbital a fair few times and Underworld once and their live sets though great never matched The Chemical Brothers in my opinion.Oh and there was Leftfield too but have never seen them live or saw a concert film. But anyway my point is i always thought NO's previous collaboration with the Chems, Here To Stay, sounded a bit dated and i hope Singularity won't suffer the same fate.

I'm not into that cheesy 'celebratory' EDM stuff which is why it wasn't good to hear Stuart Maconie describe Singularity as very EDM.

I did read the Observer interview with the Chems in The Observer yesterday, yeah.

Anyway like you say fingers crossed that the album will be good.

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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.

Both samples sounding pretty good to these ears, need to hear a vocal snippet next. The excitement is building........

This new one sounds good. My expectations are growing up! I think we will have a pretty good album.

Ahhh...i did wonder if we'd get a second snippet as the first was titled Music Complete 1. Sounds pretty good

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