Tuesday, March 4, 2014

#1155 New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies

I fucking hate the 80's, its music most of all. I mean, not really, but if me and the 80's any two other decades are playing Marry Fuck Kill it's gonna be neon everywhere.

And this is wicked 80's. And look, it pulls it off in places - take that sprightly Dying Falls bounce of Age of Consent, that muscular pulse, that fragile vocal line. It's a great, great trick. Problem is, its variations on a theme pretty much all album long, muscular synth pulse, frail vocals, chiming guitars, all with strangely similar melodic lines. The variations are good, but you'll keep wondering if you haven't shuffled your way back to a song you've already heard. If you're up for evolving echoes on a sound, and that might even be a brilliant intentional move here for all I know, you might find a lot to like here 3.5/5

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