How does it feel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPAfi6fbvTk

My first impression is the same as with much of recent output. Solid tune. Banal lyrics.

I've just had a listen. On first impressions it doesn't blow me away, it's kind of average, but hopefully that will change after a few plays. Nice to get to hear it at last. I note that it's available digitally from tomorrow so I take it this won't be the gratis track that comes with the deluxe album set, unless the date was moved forward slightly?

Edited by user 28 July 2015 02:32:28(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Same here, sort of.

1st listen - Should have been called Listless, have a moan on here, FB and YT

5th listen - Love the bit between 2:45 and 3:14

10th listen - Cannot wait for the rest of the album

It certainly sounds better without Chris Evans prattling over it.

I was singing

I knew that I could never give
You knew that you could not forgive
No price or pride would fall before
A ten foot wall without a door

Plus bits of WFTSC and Dream Attack.

No bad thing, really. Better than humming Taylor Swift lyrics.

I remember the first time I listened to Technique.

I went into college the next day & said "7/10. Not bad but not brilliant." :-/

It very quickly, rightly and permanently became my favourite album of all time.

First impressions can bite you - it'll be funny reading these assessments again in a year or two...

same here...plus I thought of All the Way!

Had about 5 listens and what stands out is....well....that's just it.

It doesn't stand out. It sounds like an album track to me. Not a lead single from a new album.

Vocals are pretty flat and I'm getting a bit tired of the car and getting (yet) another girlfriend lyrics. Sounds like it could do with a vocal in a higher register from Saint Bernard in the chorus and maybe a bridge added too.

Reminds me of WFTSC (which isn't a good thing for me).

I know I should be excited and shouldn't expect another True Faith or Regret or anything but it just seems a bit average to me.

I don't like it.The band are happy for this to be the first single???? And the album opener? Baffling. Thought my ears were clogged up the first couple of minutes as i couldn't understand or hear what Barney was singing apart from "Restless/ i've no interest/i couldn't care less"

I found the lyrics quite negative which was surprising as i thought Barney was/is quite happy with his life these days.I always seem to put myself in the shoes of someone who isn't a New Order fan when i hear a new song of theirs for the first time and imagine what they'd think of it and i just found this to be something that a lot of people would zone out of after a minute or two i'm afraid to say.Having a lyric that goes "i've got no interest" is just a turn off.

The music itself did nothing for me, it was just lame, generic....it didn't go anywhere.Nothing remarkable or catchy at all.


Wouldn't even make it on to a b side in my book.I've listened about 3 times now and it hasn't got any better.And to be brutally honest i really don't feel like listening again

Edited by user 28 July 2015 06:24:28(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I was a little underwhelmed on first listen, but it's growing on me. Good mid-summer song, presumably chosen b/c it seems radio friendly.

Have a closer look, that's on an album called New Order. It doesn't have New Order the band in it. The song is from 2012.

WTF?? It's not single material. Not bad for being somewhere towards the end of side 1 or 2 but a single? What's even there to remix? Speechless.