Cover of New Order’s “Movement”
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A year and a half after Ian Curtis’ suicide, the surviving members of Joy Division make their debut as New Order.
An album with great melancholic songs: sustained, driven and dragged on by Peter Hook’s gently singing bass, occasionally underlined in a doom-and-gloom-like manner by new keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, sometimes already undermined by the electronic beats that make up the sound of Shape New Order in the future.
“That’s a totally depressive, sad record”
In many ways, “Movement” is a blueprint for ’80s music, but to its contemporaries it still sounded too much like Joy Division, just without the Ian Curtis aura.
The band itself was the unhappiest. “It’s a totally depressing, sad record,” said guitarist Bernard Sumner in a 2015 ROLLING STONE interview.
“Ian’s death had thrown us completely off course. All we knew was that we really wanted to move on, but we had no idea in which direction. We were torn and aimless, and you can hear that in the songs.”
The most underrated albums of all time
It’s often not the canonized classics that people particularly like to play.
Instead, they’re albums in the catalog of an artist you love that you seem to have all to yourself because the rest of the world has spurned them or forgotten them – misunderstood strokes of genius, unrecognized masterpieces, neglected key works and records that are just so much better than their reputation and deserve a re-evaluation.
The most underrated albums of all time
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