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Waiting For The Sirens' Call
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 24 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 37 votes
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Album Info
Label: Warner Brothers
Release Date: 26 April 2005
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Alternative, Rock
Summary
The veteran Manchester band's latest disc was produced by Tore Johansson and John Leckie, and sees touring guitarist Phil Cunningham becoming an official full-time band member, replacing departed keyboardist Gillian Gilbert.
Also By This Artist: Get Ready
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly
A satisfying return to the Blue Monday sound of their heyday. [29 Apr 2005, p.147]
Playlouder
This is pristine, state of the art, pop: the usual perfect combination of great melodies and swooping atmospherics that you can dance to.
Read Full Review >Under The Radar
Their most innovative and unified record since Technique. [#9]
Alternative Press
A fine distillation of everything New Order have been. [May 2005, p.176]
Pitchfork
When it's firing on all cylinders, Sirens' Call offers manic pop thrills that either recall the group's heyday, or slyly recalls the noise made by other people that were touched by New Order
Read Full Review >cokemachineglow
Unsurprisingly, the formula still works just fine, and in more than a couple spots, it’s revitalized and intensified to great effect.
Read Full Review >Lost At Sea
There is nothing here that pushes past what we expect from New Order in their current incarnation, but it is facile, shiny, bright and well-behaved around strangers.
Read Full Review >Uncut
If nothing here is quite touched by the hand of God, then maybe it's all the more engagingly human. [Apr 2005, p.104]
Trouser Press
An extremely catchy collection of solidly crafted pop songs in the familiar New Order idiom.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
While great songs is something “Waiting For The Sirens’ Call” obviously lacks, it’s still a cracking New Order album - albeit one performed by a group all pushing 50 and mostly written about Bernard Sumner’s yacht.
Read Full Review >E! Online
But even if it's only half as good as it used to be, this Call sounds okay to us.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express (NME)
Touted as half 'Get Ready', half 'Technique', it lives up to every predictable stylistic retread that entails, to the point of self-parody.... Thank Christ, then, that the songs are so good. [26 Mar 2005, p.49]
Blender
Zigzags between immensely beautiful and crushingly ordinary with disorienting regularity. [May 2005, p.122]
All Music Guide
Unfortunately, however, the adjectives that need to be attached to this record -- workmanlike, customary, unembarrassing -- aren't going to make music fans flood the record stores seeking copies.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
In the context of New Order's catalog, it may sink to the bottom, but listening to a great (or at least once-great) band phone it in can at least occasionally be rewarding enough to make the effort worthwhile.
Read Full Review >The Guardian
Too much of the album passes by in a pleasantly inconsequential blur.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
A patchy affair. [Apr 2005, p.124]
Mojo
There's little real sense of progression here... and at times New Order sound dreary and ordinary. [May 2005, p.96]
Austin Chronicle
There's one smashing standout here, and that's the closing remix of "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion," a thumping, serpentine slice of pure New Order circa "Blue Monday," but even that can't save this grave "No."
Read Full Review >Stylus Magazine
Maybe their edge was lost in the lukewarm production. Maybe it was lost in Barney’s lyrics, which are as utterly meaningless as they have been for years now. Maybe it was just lost altogether.
Read Full Review >Drawer B
For the life of me I cannot fathom how people can claim this album is any sort of return to form.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 37 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
D B gave it a10:
loved it
jyo_tirmaya d gave it a7:
It is a good solid effort. I don't play it very often because it's just not my fave New Order CD, but when I do play it, I wonder why I don't play it more. Isn't that weird?
Andi A gave it a3:
How the mighty have fallen! WAITING FOR THE SIRENS' CALL, unfortunately, lacks any semblance of inspiration or passion. Barney and Mr. Hook have never sounded more generic; New Order have made an album that is as vapid, dull and thoroughly uninteresting as the lyrics to "Krafty." Avoid this one at all costs.
Mark C gave it a10:
2 Words !!!!!! Pure Genius After going mad when listening to there previous album GET READY i thought those boys could not beat that but....... I think this album has just gone slightly past it i was sceptical at first as they turned down there guitars riffs a bit and incorporated a bit more of there TECHNIQUE style electronics. WHAT a lovely mixture after a few listens to the album i Loved it. So uplifting but at the same time so heavy. Ok so New orders Lyrics have never made much sense but most bands talk crap on there songs but afew bands can pull it off by making the poor lyrics mix in well with the songs. when you have great tunes you just sing along to them anyway Who cares !!!! New order are getting Better. Nice One Boys carry on the good work A++
don s gave it a10:
the best!!
Sakeson T gave it a9:
Clearly & Perfectly Britpop
D Johnson gave it a9:
It's a great album
