CD REVIEW
New Order
Music Complete
IF you're of a certain age - perhaps like a fine, maturing wine - you'll be greatly anticipating this album from New Order.
It gets off to a lively start with a return to the electronic sound so well known by the band.
Plastic is a thrashing beast of a song with an addictive hook and a pounding chorus about fake beauty.
The eighties are back with much aplomb in the Human League style Tutti Frutti, while Stray Dog borrows from Baz Luhrmann's Sunscreen with a growling voice talking about 'the secret of happiness'.
This is a superb return to form for New Order, it's an album with a glorious, life-affirming sound, no better demonstrated by Nothing But a Fool. The world needs this epic, beautiful song.
This is a bit like a trip in a time machine to an age where albums were albums.
And that sound is mature, not retro.
JOANNA DAVIS
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