Metascore
63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 24
  2. Negative: 2 out of 24
  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    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]
  2. Blender
    60
    Zigzags between immensely beautiful and crushingly ordinary with disorienting regularity. [May 2005, p.122]
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Too much of the album passes by in a pleasantly inconsequential blur.
  6. Q Magazine
    40
    A patchy affair. [Apr 2005, p.124]
  7. Mojo
    40
    There's little real sense of progression here... and at times New Order sound dreary and ordinary. [May 2005, p.96]
  8. 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."
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 45
  2. Negative: 5 out of 45
  1. Jun 5, 2021
    7
    I like the first six songs, but things do get a little too poppy, and gimmicky after that. The Song itself "Waiting for the Sirens Call" is amazing.
  2. DB
    Jan 7, 2007
    10
    loved it
  3. jyo_tirmayad
    Sep 2, 2006
    7
    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 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? Full Review »