Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 24
  2. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. They may have been apart for eight years, but less than a minute into opening track, 'Crystal', they've slotted back into their own idiosyncratic groove and the years are pouring off them.... Being in New Order never sounded like half as much fun as it does here.
  2. True, only "60 Miles an Hour" sounds like a candidate for New Order's pantheon of hallowed singles; still, Get Ready might be the group's most consistent album from top to bottom.
  3. Finds them as able as ever, playing as though they'd never been gone, and offering their most organic album in ages.
  4. New Order are one of the best bands in the world again.
  5. Even for fans not needing much convincing, Get Ready is a "grower," an album whose focus on sublime songcraft and introverted delivery reveals its secrets slowly and after many listens.
  6. New Order have made better records than this, but not many with such an emotional charge and the expansive noise to carry it off.... Get Ready is the sound of a great band breaking free of their past before your ears. Who’d have thought it?
  7. Well, it's not 'Low Life' or 'Technique' but there's at least seven welcome additions to the New Order canon and in the thrilling 'Crystal' and poignant 'Run Wild', a brace of bona fide classics.
  8. A catchy, beautiful album that looks to the past but refuses to be burdened by it.
  9. Get Ready is one of New Order's better works, and that's saying a lot.
  10. Obviously it's not perky enough, funky enough either, but their best (and third) album in 15 years (and probably last ever) sounds an awful lot like what kids today call pop.
  11. The best tracks--"Crystal" and "Turn My Way"--sound like they were recorded in 1987.
  12. Both a regressive return to form and a progressive triumph.
  13. Get Ready follows through fully on the promise of "Crystal."
  14. Mixer
    70
    Get Ready succeeds in feeling like a New Order record despite all its new flavors. [Sep 2001, p.86]
  15. Alternative Press
    70
    Solid pop sensibility... [Nov 2001, p.89]
  16. Demonstrates a virility missing from [1993's "Republic"].
  17. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    New Order roll out that trademark sound again, and it's never sounded stronger or more vigorous.... A stunning and confident return to form. [19 Oct 2001, p.80]
  18. The Wire
    70
    Negotiate Steve Osborne's rather dated stadium Techno-rock production, and there's plenty to stimulate here... [#211, p.70]
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 41 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 41
  2. Negative: 1 out of 41
  1. Jun 2, 2021
    7
    This has been labeled as a "return to form" by a lot of diehard fans for some reason and I can't be too sure why. You see fans have a lot ofThis has been labeled as a "return to form" by a lot of diehard fans for some reason and I can't be too sure why. You see fans have a lot of misconceptions about things that took place in the past. They seem to forget that since day one Syths were a big part of their sound, and so was being "pop." Yes they had indy cred, but they wrote songs for the radio.

    For one thing I have to say the lyrics are forgettable and seem to touch mostly on casual subject matter. Nothing meaningful (except Crystal) will be found here.

    Moving on: The songs individually are listenable and catchy but seem to have lost the vigor they had in the 80s- and even in Republic.

    As far as the music goes, the sounds will grab you, but in a few places I felt there was too much clutter. Too much going on.
    Its certainly better than WFTSC but even Republic was great stuff, even if the band themselves were too distracted by what was going on internally to really listen to it.
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  2. Sep 6, 2018
    9
    Like "U2" made almost in the same time with "All that you can't Leave behind" one year before in (2000) a album more acoustic, clean, andLike "U2" made almost in the same time with "All that you can't Leave behind" one year before in (2000) a album more acoustic, clean, and quiet. New Order with Get Ready (2001) did the same thing with the sound, practically the album is absent of electronic or synth-pop maybe the biggest feature of New Order.

    But in Get Ready, NO doesn't abandoned another big feature, Rock, with classics tracks like Crystal, 60 Miles an hour and Close Range.
    You feel if you are a New Order fan the lack of electronic sounds, but the album doensn't let it be very solid for that.
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  3. CuanaD
    May 19, 2005
    10
    I'd have to rate this as highly as PC&L, and Technique - ahead of Republic, Movement, and well ahead of Brotherhood & Lowlife. there are I'd have to rate this as highly as PC&L, and Technique - ahead of Republic, Movement, and well ahead of Brotherhood & Lowlife. there are a bunch of great tracks here & I really only skip track 3 because of Billy Corgan's additional vocals. Full Review »