Excerpts from q magazine:
There's plenty to surprise on Music Complete, the 10th New Order album and their first completely new recording together in a decade. There are outright techno bangers with an aggression they’ve never achieved before. There’s an irrepressible bouncy castle of Euro-pop called Tutti Frutti, complete with a lascivious Italian voice, an echo of the ersatz Barry White who oozed, “You’ve got loooove technique” on Fine Time back in the E’d-up days of 1988. And there’s an Elmore Leonard-style spoken-word soliloquy (Stray Dog) gruffly delivered by none other than Iggy Pop. It is New Order with the colour turned up.
But strangest and most brilliant of all – and by far the furthest that New Order have travelled from their monochrome beginnings as Joy Division, the most magnificently fatalistic band in all music history – is an extraordinary new song called People On The
High Line. Beginning with a flurry of Chic guitar, it unfurls into a balls-out hilarious fantasia of hammering house pianos, actual funk bass, disco strings and ecstatically lovelorn lyrics. It’s a tentpole track for Music Complete, an unabashed report-to-the-
dancefloor album that matches New Order’s previous Ibizan zenith Technique for outright rave-mental excitement. If nothing else, it should finally see off anyone who’s still holding out for another Love Will Tear Us Apart. People On The High Line is New Order’s very own Club Tropicana. Actually, scratch that – it’s their Uptown Funk.
“You can blame Tom for that,” says Stephen Morris, 57, New Order’s lugubrious drummer-programmer-producer, in reference to bassist and new boy Tom Chapman. “He loves all that stuff. Nothing wrong with wanting to be in a disco band. God knows, we did for years. These tunes just make you smile, don’t they? Joy Division would never, ever make something like that. Which,” he adds mischievously, “is all the more reason for doing it.”
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