Product Description

'Waiting For The Siren's Call' is Manchester-based post-punk veterans New Order's ninth studio album. This album is a marked departure from the rockier sound of previous album 'Get Ready', with the band returning to the more dance orientated sound of their earlier material. Includes the single 'Krafty'.

Track Listing

1. Who’s Joe?
2. Hey Know What You Doing
3. Waiting For The Sirens’ Call
4. Krafty
5. I Told You So
6. Morning Night And Day
7. Dracula’s Castle
8. Jetstream
9. Guilt Is A Useless Emotion
10. Turn
11. Working Overtime

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18241 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-28
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
New Order--the band that rose from the ashes of Joy Division after vocalist Ian Curtis took his own life--emerged from the post-punk permafrost of the early Eighties to straddle the pop world like a Dionysian disco Pink Floyd on MDMA. Waiting for the Sirens' Call--the band's eighth studio album and the Manchester combos' second outing since 1998's resumption of duties--is hardly likely to ensnare the post-millennial zeitgeist. But that's ageism for you. Leaving the legends of yore aside, a dispassionate analysis of Waiting for the Sirens' Call reveals two incontrovertibly classic new songs; "Turn" is a subdued but brooding successor to "Regret" while the title track--the sort of song that could soundtrack an entire summer--ploughs a lineal furrow right back through "Run", "All Day Long", "Love Vigilantes", "Leave Me Alone" and Joy Division's "Insight". Elsewhere there's a swathe of comfortably solid electro-indie rock cut from the same chiffon as "Brotherhood" or "Republic" and three quarrelsomely anomalous bones of un-New Orderly contention. The latter trinity--the brainlessly curt but catchy Stooges/Strokes stomp of "Working Overtime", the balmy indolent ragga of "I Told You So" and the effete "Jetstream Lover" (featuring Scissor Sister Ana Matronic) may precipitate fretful responses from the cognoscenti but at least these manoeuvres counter suspicions that New Order are treading water in a sea of circumspection. Yes, one senses that the guitar numbers flowed instinctively while the clubbier dance songs endured a more toilsome genesis (perhaps the songwriting balance has altered with guitarist Phil Cunningham having moved in to replace Gillian Gilbert) and yes, some numbers ("Guilt Is A Useless Emotion", "Dracula's Castle") are excellent but self-referential. Regardless, Waiting for the Sirens' Call is an engaging, quality record. --Kevin Maidment

Customer Reviews

great album
These are all the songs I like from New Order



Krafty
Waiting
Who's joe
Turn
Crystal
turn my way
Primitive motion
Vicious streak
Regret
Ruined in a day
Spooky
Avalanche
Run
Vanishing point
Dream attack
Love less
Temptation
True faith
Everything gone green
1963
Brutal
Lonesome night
Lets go for nothing
Such a good thing
The perfect kiss
This time of night
Face up
Love vigilantes
The village
586
Leave me alone
Age of consent
Every little counts
All day long
Way of life
Bizarre love triangle
Dream never end
The him
Senses
Blue Monday
World in motion
Love will tear us apart
Atmosphere
Isolation
Touched by the hand of god
Thieves like us
Ceremony
procession

And from nowhere, everybody suddenly loves New Order. We Always did love them, though....
Godlike Geniuses, the NME tells us. Innovators, schminnovators, blah. Those flavours of the month who hail them as heroes ...this shows them how to do it.

Whereas some turn to the template of the past and rehash old ideas, others always look to something else - . Something new. To the future, which has only just begun. They may be old, and they may be old ideas, but they don't sound old. They still sound like young men with a weight on their shoulders.

It's a New Order record. And it sounds like other New Order records - timeless and timely, of electronics and emotions, of men and machines. Beautiful, yet reservedly British. But no invention, no innovation. Just New Order doing what they do, and doing it well.

To the keen eyed, the signs for their eighth album are not good. Verbosely named, it dispenses with the efficiency of their previous twenty years of recording with bulky, inelegant titles and simplistic one would say crude artwork that appears to make an almost harsh break with their history.

Never judge a record by it's cover. For once you open the box, and press play - or as those who live in the future do, double-click- you'll find appearances deceptive.

"Krafty", the oddly titled lead-off single, is typical New-Order-By-Numbers, but never sounds it. Subterrean bass, vocals both loving and loathing life at the same time, meaningless and meaningful at the same time. The type of song that makes you see that everything in life can be beautiful : child-like, but never childish. Innocent but never naïve.

Repeat this formula (with slight variation) a further ten times, and you have the new album. Unlike many other New Order albums though, there's little in the way of obvious album filler. Almost every song could be a single , bar the final, blundering Beatles-pastiche of "Working Overtime"- the record is a succint, streamlined body of work that is another worthy addition to their body of work.

And yet it's oddly stagnant. For the first time, New Order's reputation may indeed be undeserved. The patent blueprint of "Get Ready" is unchanged ; a heady mix of crunchy guitars and swooping bass and deft electronics - and this is perhaps the record's shortcoming. There's new songs. Just no new ideas.

It's just another New Order record ... and another New Order record is better than many bands entire careers.

Good, Now do it again without jetstream, that 'need your love song' and working overtime.
Take away about three songs to leave yourself with the best neworder album they have ever put out. at the same time: when the songs go bad, they go embarassingly and cringworthily bad. or Horrid.