★★★★★
"Hello! Guess who we are? Weare New Order. Obviously."Since reforming two years agowithout Peter Hook but withGillian Gilbert back in the fold,the legends of Manchestermusic seem to have beenhaving a rather good time,taking a crowd-pleasing setaround some of the morepleasant festivals and dishingout cracking performances toextremely happy punters.Sounds good, doesn't it?
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-08-21
★★★★★
Not too long ago, the thirst for live recordings sparked a black market of bootleg cassettes available at local record shops or from your neighborhood music nut that somehow got a hold of all sorts of gems by offering some cash to the mixer board operator at the show. Times have changed, and bands often allow professional tapers to share their music free of charge...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-08-14
★★★★★
Rob Da Bank's Bestival festival is back again this year (with a cheeky nautical theme!), which contributes to my general impression that New Order's 2012 headline set did not in fact sink the Isle of Wight with the force of its brilliance, that a live recording is not the single most sought after artefact of the twenty-first century. So what's the deal with Live at Bestival, then? Nominally it exists as a charitable effort, with proceeds raised going to the Isle of Wight Youth Trust...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-07-17
★★★★★
It's easy to take a band with a storied history and try to impose thoughts and feelings about where they should be heading instead of taking them at face value. This recording of a headline show by New Order at 2012's Bestival on the Isle of Wight offers plenty of moments that don't necessarily sit well-- Bernard Sumner bellowing "come on...
- pitchfork.com
2013-07-08
★★★★★
If Bernard Sumner and the rest of New Order are looking to hack off Peter Hook they're doing a pretty good job of it. Not only are they still pulling audiences and headlining festivals, but they're also being all-round good eggs, with the profits from this recording of their performance at Bestival in 2012 going to charity, mate. Meanwhile, Hooky is hawking himself around smaller venues playing New Order and Joy Division albums front to back. You can imagine who's the happier party...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-07-05
★★★★★
If Bernard Sumner and the rest of New Order are looking to hack off Peter Hook they're doing a pretty good job of it. Not only are they still pulling audiences and headlining festivals, but they're also being all-round good eggs, with the profits from this recording of their performance at Bestival in 2012 going to charity, mate. Meanwhile, Hooky is hawking himself around smaller venues playing New Order and Joy Division albums front to back. You can imagine who's the happier party...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-07-13
★★★★★
Whereas the idea of a new New Order would have lent itself to smirks a few years ago, given the sinuous course of its members since the insipid Republic, Get Ready proves to be a solid album for a welcome return. Closer to their earlier productions rather than their later FM byproducts (like their English soccer anthem), Get Ready, surprisingly, is a rock album where instead of drowning everything out, the electronic sounds are relegated behind the guitars and bass...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The Madchester scene and Factory Records may well be the single most overrated and unwarrantedly praised era British music has ever seen. If The Stone Roses' horrific and embarrassing reunion accomplished anything, it was to starkly demonstrate that while this music may have provided a boom for a provincial town in the Northwest, it belongs avowedly to a bygone era...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-03-04
★★★★★
If Lost Sirens turns out to be the last of New Order, or even of New Order with Peter Hook as a member, it would be a fitting farewell. "You've caught me at a bad time / So why don't you piss off", goes one of Bernard Sumner's more (in)famous lyrics. And sure enough, the band has always taken something of a solipsistic approach to their career, to the point where their disinterest and lack of image became an image itself...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-02-28
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