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Here To Stay (2002)
You’d have thought, given a proposition as drearily 1996 as The Chemical Brothers producing New Order, that someone, somewhere would have pulled their creative finger out, but ‘Will This Do?’ from the '24 Hour Party People' soundtrack is everything you feared about New Order reuniting.
After the solid, fleetingly sensational, ‘Get Ready’ this is New Order by numbers as synths hum gothically, guitars rattle like they’ve been strung too tight and faux syn-drums, err, fill. ‘Here To Stay’ comes and goes without you noticing, no matter how hard you concentrate. So, hey a, erm, boon for road safety if gets a lot of radio play and very, very bad for New Order’s legacy if it’s a sign of the half-hearted things to come.
Tony Naylor
Source: Tony Naylor (New Musical Express) |
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