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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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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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BlenderZigzags between immensely beautiful and crushingly ordinary with disorienting regularity. [May 2005, p.122]
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Mellifluous, yet unenticing.
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MojoThere's little real sense of progression here... and at times New Order sound dreary and ordinary. [May 2005, p.96]
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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]
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Q MagazineA patchy affair. [Apr 2005, p.124]
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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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Too much of the album passes by in a pleasantly inconsequential blur.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 34 out of 45
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Mixed: 6 out of 45
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Negative: 5 out of 45
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Jun 5, 2021I 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.
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DBJan 7, 2007loved it
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jyo_tirmayadSep 2, 2006