New Order – Waiting For The Sirens’ Call album review

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Everyone is falling over themselves to figure out how Peter Hook gets *that* bass sound, and how Bernard Sumner manages to make generally terrible lyrics sound meaningful. That Hooky, Barney and drummer/programmer Stephen Morris have been doing this for longer than half of their current fanbase has existed, might have some bearing on New Order’s current status as the U2 it’s not embarrassing to like. Waiting For The Sirens’ Call sounds precisely how you’d expect a 2005 New Order album produced by John Leckie, Stuart “Les Rythmes Digitales” Price and Stephen Street to sound: naggingly catchy, irresistibly danceable and as comfortably familiar as your favourite childhood T-shirt. New single ‘Krafty’ and album closer ‘Working Overtime’ are the killers, with ‘Jetstream’ (featuring one Ana Matronic) taking the bronze. Grand.

Charlie Ivens