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Here To Stay (2002)
The magnificent return of New Order last year was a rather unexpected but nonetheless, utterly thrilling experience, and one which sealed their position as Godfathers of the electro-rock interface.
However, 'Here To Stay' is a flat, New Order by numbers excursion, thankfully left off the almost 100 per cent mighty 'Get Ready' and now featured on the soundtrack to the unmissable '24 Hour Party People' movie.
The Chemical Brothers' involvement goes virtually unnoticed, amid a vaguely 'Republic' era mash of Hooky's plunging bassline, choppy rhythms and a stream of unfortunate cliches from the mouth of Bernard Sumner, who, lest we forget, once wrote the immortal words "nothing in this world, can touch the music that I heard, when I woke up this morning".
Hate to say it, but this is a major disappointment. That's all right though, we'll just have to blame it on the Chemical Brothers.
6/10
Ben Gilbert
Source: Ben Gilbert (DotMusic) |
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