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Generally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings
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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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Waiting For The Sirens' CallYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings
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FredFApr 29, 2005Pleasant but innocuous. Bernard Sumners poorest lyrics to date, plus the fact that you've heard all these songs before maybe 20 years ago. Self reference turns into ripping ones self off. Still glad they are making music however.
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JeffDApr 26, 2005Is this really from the same band responsible for some of the best music of the 1980's? Nearly every track sounds like it was written over a couple of drinks in an hour or so, and the album as a whole lacks a single highlight. Listenable pop music perhaps, but for something really memorable look at Brotherhood or Republic. Disappointing.
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vermindeathstackApr 27, 2005I really loved Get Ready, an album that I thought out shone even Technique. But this one is a bit of a disappointment. Most of the songs sound uninspired, and pass by like background music. The title track, however, is a real gem, classic New Order that rivals anything they
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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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BlenderZigzags between immensely beautiful and crushingly ordinary with disorienting regularity. [May 2005, p.122]
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Their best since Technique.