Track Listing

1. Your Silent Face
2. Ecstasy
3. Leave Me Alone
4. Age Of Consent
5. We All Stand
6. Village
7. 586

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8427 in Music
• Released on: 2000-01-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
New Order took the gothic overtones and deadpan synthesisers from their previous incarnation as Joy Division and updated them via the New York club scene. To a nation of dour, angst-ridden, raincoat wearers, this album gave them their daily bread with a buttering of disco. In retrospect, it was a brave idea; in reality, Power, Corruption & Lies' success is the reward of artistic endeavour, of maverick musicians pushing forward and creating a sublime work. These songs are hypnotic dance tracks that vary the pace enough to intrigue bedroom-pop listeners and satisfy the club cognoscenti. They combine despair and celebration with a subtle melodic grace that has all the guile of a pocket-sized orchestra. It's streets ahead of its time and is one the best examples of why New Order are one of the most important and essential bands of their time. --Ben Clancy

Customer Reviews

A New Order Turning Point
This is most definitely a turning point for the Order. Movement was really a Joy Division release without Curtis, whereas Power Corruption and Lies is clearly a band finding their own sound with the distinctive use of electronics throughout. I have this on vinyl and the track order is very different to the CD listed. However I am sure this will not detract from ones overall enjoyment.

The opener "Age of Consent" brings Hooky's base to the fore of the music and Morris's drumming is excellent along with Bernard’s (slightly more) confident vocals combine to give a definitive New Order Track.

Another track of note is "586", which can only remind listeners of Blue Monday. The distinctive New Order sound is very much present, which would be developed in later albums.

These are two of my personal favourites from the album, but to be honest none of the tracks are weak. This isn't the best Order album to buy first, (Low - Life would be a better first buy), but this is still an excellent release.

The title says it all!
Coming some two years after Movement, this was the
turning point album in many ways. Many, including
the band themselves, felt that Movement was too
close to the Joy Division sound and this is partly
borne out as they are not keen to play anything
from it (barring the odd Dreams Never End!).

Movement was also the last JD/NO album to be
produced by the gifted (and late) genius Martin
Hannett. So, P, C & L sees the band stretching
out in different directions at the same time.

Your Silent Face is classic early NO: a sequenced
and metronomic line locked in tight to Steve's
Oberheim DMX drum machine (later to find fame on
Blue Monday). On top of these are Gillian's
spacious string lines, Hooky's melodic bass and
Barney intoning the lethal pay-off line before
aforementioned strings - and his melodica! -
come back: "You've caught me at a bad time so
why don't you piss off?".

I've seen them do this track live a few times,
the last time being in October 2001 at Brixton
and to see a few hundred people shout it back
at Barney is quite something! On record, it's
a glorious moment.

Leave Me Alone is stripped-down, powering along
on Hooky's driving bass and Steve's dynamic
drumming. Ecstacy features another minimal
bassline and superb vocoder vocals. They only
used it on this (and The Beach), it went wrong,
they spent a fortune on it but it never worked
again! Ultraviolence conveys an air of menace
where Barney's restrained vocals compliment the
impending savagery of the music perfectly.

Both We All Stand and 586 first saw an airing in
early form on a Peel session in the summer of 82.
We All Stand is incredibly minimal: there's very
little there, just sparse guitar, Hooky's winding
bass and Steve's effected drumming.

586 is a different kettle of fish. The Peel
version is quite minimal but this is a corker.
An insistant sequenced bassline draws us in
and the band give it to us with both barrells,
drawing to a close with a brilliant sampled
toy piano solo!

"I heard you calling..." says Barney as the
music swells and the sound is quite joyful
and exuberant, two fingers to NO's detractors
who see their music as dour and joyless.

Not so. They were on their way to the big time
and this album paved the way...

Al Ferrier, December 2001

The first real New Order album
Movement, for all of its value was essentially an evolution towards the New Order sound and, had Ian Curtis still have been around would have been a great third Joy Division album. With Power, Corruption and Lies, New Order were born and a wonderful new sound came with it. Years ahead of its time and influential to this day, this is an essential album to own, both from a nostalgia point of view for those mid-30s like me and also for those interested in the development of dance music over the last 20 years. Mind you, I would buy the import if at all possible as it has the addition of Blue Monday/The Beach and Ultraviolence.