Waiting For The Sirens' Call
- New Order
- Band Name: New Order
- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Release Date: Apr 26, 2005
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A satisfying return to the Blue Monday sound of their heyday. [29 Apr 2005, p.147]
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Their most innovative and unified record since Technique. [#9]
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80This is pristine, state of the art, pop: the usual perfect combination of great melodies and swooping atmospherics that you can dance to.
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Their best since Technique.
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A fine distillation of everything New Order have been. [May 2005, p.176]
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80A very strong -- albeit front-loaded -- album.
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79When 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
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Unsurprisingly, the formula still works just fine, and in more than a couple spots, it's revitalized and intensified to great effect.
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75There 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.
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70While 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.
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70If nothing here is quite touched by the hand of God, then maybe it's all the more engagingly human. [Apr 2005, p.104]
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An extremely catchy collection of solidly crafted pop songs in the familiar New Order idiom.
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67But even if it's only half as good as it used to be, this Call sounds okay to us.
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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]
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60Zigzags between immensely beautiful and crushingly ordinary with disorienting regularity. [May 2005, p.122]
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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.
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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.
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Mellifluous, yet unenticing.
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50Too much of the album passes by in a pleasantly inconsequential blur.
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40There's little real sense of progression here... and at times New Order sound dreary and ordinary. [May 2005, p.96]
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40A patchy affair. [Apr 2005, p.124]
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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."
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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.
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20For the life of me I cannot fathom how people can claim this album is any sort of return to form.
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