New Order
Movement
New Wave Post Punk this is new order's debut from 1981 in name only with the ghost of ian curtis still hanging heavily over his grieving joy division bandmates it would take them one more step to the brilliant 'power corruption and lies' to really assert their own power 'movement' is the sound of guitarist bernard sumner percussionist stephen morris and innovative bassist peter hook building a bridge from joy division's sturm und drang drone to new order's considerably brighter dance pop it's an interesting bridge to cross though peppered with dark highlights like the almost poppy 'dreams never end' the blipblooping electro chaos of the pere ubuinfluenced 'icb' and 'the him' with its rhythmic echoes of joy division's 'atrocity exhibition'