New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call (2 VINYL LP) - first pressing, 2005
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Lovely first pressing 2005 vinyl copy of Waiting for the Siren's Call. Sleeve is excellent, apart from a spray mark on the back cover (see photo); inner and disc in mint condition - unplayed (not quite sure how that happened!)
Your record will be delivered in a rigid cardboard mailer, to ensure it arrives in the same lovely condition it left me. Free post and packing and rapid dispatch.
Product review Remembering the old times, WAITING FOR THE SIRENS' CALL sounds like a collection of early songs that never were released before. With Phil Cunningham replacing Gillian Gilbert on guitar and keyboards, the reborn New Order found breath to write pulsating songs that can conquer new admirers and satisfy demanding fans. "Krafty" is a synthesis of their twenty-five-year career and it places New Order in a warm space in the pop scene. Mixing electro and slim rock, basic rhythm guitars and synth beats, their music refuses to accept easy labels. And that's cool.
This four piece band from Manchester (UK) was the first dance oriented post-punk group in the world. Without New Order we wouldn't have had Moby, Chemical Brothers, Doves, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol and The Killers. And WAITING FOR THE SIRENS' CALL confirms that. Produced by New Order and also by Stephen Street, John Leckie and Stuart Price, this album recovers the past with dignity and reaffirms their influence over forming bands in England. And now they're much more a guitar based band than an electronic pop group.
WAITING FOR THE SIRENS' CALL has several wonderful songs: "Who's Joe?", the opening track, is one of them; "Hey Now What You're Doing" and "Morning Night and Day" have the essence of the eighties; "Dracula's Castle" is a kind of soft dark rock and has an unexpected bass line; we can dance with "I Told You So", "Jetstream" and "Guilty is a Useless Emotion" (this is the "party side" of the album); "Turn" is a sunny sub-TECHNIQUE song; and the amazing "Working Overtime" sounds like The Stooges.
This album is not for fans only. WAITING FOR THE SIRENS' CALL contains the key for a better understanding of the road along which britpop came to follow. That is more than a record, is an artistic declaration.
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