Track Listing

1. Fine Time
2. Love Less
3. Run
4. Vanishing Point
5. All The Way
6. Guilty Partner
7. Mr Disco
8. Dream Attack

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45568 in Music
• Released on: 2000-01-04
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Technique is New Order's most fully realised dance album. Although other New Order albums have been mighty danceable, this recording contains a masterful use of the acid-house trends storming the club scene in 1989, when this album was released. New Order embraced the technology that was available at the time but never substituted brilliant song structures with prefabricated formats that sequencers, samplers, and other high-tech noisemakers can easily provide. They intelligently used these devices to incorporate elements of a broader genre beyond the "New Order sound," proving that even while experimenting with musical trends and other fleeting diversions, this accomplished group is capable of pulling off a genre-defining album without ever losing sight of their own identity. --Beth Bessmer

CD Description
Following the critical dismissal of their previous record, BROTHERHOOD, New Order was at something of a crossroads in their career. TECHNIQUE (1989) found them back in favour as antecedents to a pair of oddly related trends: songs about the British tradition of holidays in Spain, and acid-house music. The first of these trends was adopted by everyone from Blur to the Pet Shop Boys. As for the second, while vacationing in Ibiza, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean, the bandwas impressed by a fleeting dance style then prevalent in the clubs there. TECHNIQUE was the band's own take on that sound, and eventually, this adaptation became one of the touchstones of acid-house music.
The album is an effective mixof strange, sampled sounds (something at which the band hadalways excelled), propulsive beats, and Bernard Sumner's ever-improving vocal style. "Fine Time", "Round & Round", and "Mr. Disco" are New Order at their most assertive, while "All the Way" and "Love Less" show their more pop-oriented side. The album's standout track "Run" sounds as though the bandhad rediscovered the power of simple bursts of guitar, withsearing solos cutting into the smooth beats.

Customer Reviews

The Quintessential New Order Album
If you like New Order, this is their best album.
Released in '89 at the height of the acid rave revolution and on the crest on that scene's crossover to guitar music, its a landmark classic that will never loose its appeal.

Its use on the BBC series 'Making Out' was particularly poignant in the 1990 setting of Northern industrial England.

A must buy for anyone who liked any of their other stuff from Blue Monday, Bizzarre Love Triangle, True Faith to Regret.
Vanishing Point is my personal high on the album.

Their most lasting album!
Well it's a toss up between this and 'Power, Corruption and Lies' for the best New Order album. For the 'Blue Monday' fans 'Power....' is the best bet, but if you're looking for a more upbeat, dance orientated album, then this is your one.

This is my fave New Order album. The opener 'Fine Time' is one of my favourite New Order tracks. Starting off with a thumping 4/4 beat it builds into an eletronic bassline driven song which filled the dancefloors back in 1989.

The rest of the album is a heady mix of classic pop songs and guitar laden, dance tracks. Very upbeat sounding but when you listen tot he lyrics you understand it is not too upbeat, it wouldn't be New Order if it was!

The album finishes with 'Dream Attack' which is another gem, a guitar intro which flows into a full flowing, beautiful pop song.

The Greatest Album of All Time
Ignore any of the other reviews if there's even a single bad word in them. Truly this album is the distillation of New Order's unstoppable genius. Run has the greatest opening ever (alongside The Pixies' Debaser), Mr Disco is surely the finest song ever written about chicken in a basket holiday romance, Vanishing Point makes cymbals sound like interesting instruments, Round&Round is New Order's great lost single - easily up there with Bizarre Love Triangle, Guilty Partner rocks like a chair and with Fine Time New Order show a generation of Acid House chancers how it's done. Every second of this music is perfect. And as for the lyrics - this is Bernard Sumner's Blood on the Tracks, every song littered with suggestions of heartbreak. "Answer me, why won't you answer me?" "My life aint no holiday, I've been through the point of no return", "The picture you see is no portrait of me", "I can't see the sense in you leaving, all I need is your love to believe in."

All in all the perfect soundtrack to anything anyone ever does, ever.