Waiting For The Sirens' Call
by New Order
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 45
  3. Negative: 5 out of 45

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  1. AndiA
    Jan 25, 2006
    3
    How the mighty have fallen! WAITING FOR THE SIRENS' CALL, unfortunately, lacks any semblance of inspiration or passion. Barney and Mr. Hook have never sounded more generic; New Order have made an album that is as vapid, dull and thoroughly uninteresting as the lyrics to "Krafty." Avoid this one at all costs.
  2. PauloD
    Jun 2, 2005
    2
    for a band that have done so much hits and returned in 2001 with such a great and inspired album (called Get Ready), this one is really awful. i can only describe as "poor pop". maybe "krafty" is the only song that survive from this bad album.
  3. Sean
    May 4, 2005
    2
    This is the worst thing they have ever done!

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95
#95 Most Shared Album of 2005

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Metascore
63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 24
  3. 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. Rolling Stone
    80
    Their best since Technique.
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