Movement - 2016 European London Records Label 8-track LP Reissue

2016 reissue of Manchester synthwave quartets 1981 debut - written and recorded within a few months after Joy Division singer and songwriter Ian Curtis tragic suicide... a moment in time displaying the band working without a frontal fixpoint - even though the atmosphere is in the old, the process was in the new... new lyrical and musical horizonts ... shifting vocals between bass player Peter Hook and guitarist Bernard Sumner... adding new keyboardist Gillian Gilbert. Movement must have been a tough album to establish and record.

"More so than on any Joy Division record, it also revealed a group unafraid to experiment relentlessly in the studio until it had emerged with something unique. It showed, too, on tracks like the very hooky "Dreams Never End" or the insistently danceable "Chosen Time," some of the pop smarts that would flower fully later on in their career. Spurred on by producer Martin Hannett, despite his antagonistic relationship with the band (and perhaps, because of it), New Order produced a ghostly, brittle record, occasionally uptempo but never upbeat, with drum machines rattling and echoing over dark waves of synthesizers and Hook's iconic basswork. A masterpiece in the career of any other post-punk band, Movement paled only in comparison to the band's later work." Allmusic Review by John Bush

Packed in a picture cover featuring the original 1981 Peter Saville designed artwork... which was based on a start 1930ies poster by Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Dreams Never End 3:13
2. Truth 4:37
3. Senses 4:45
4. Chosen Time 4:07

Side 2:
5. ICB 4:33
6. The Him 5:29
7. Doubts Even Here 4:16
8. Denial 4:20

All tracks are written by Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Gillian Gilbert, and Stephen Morris

recorded 24 April – 4 May 1981 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport

New Order

Bernard Sumner – vocals, guitars, melodica, synthesizers and programming
Peter Hook – 4- and 6-stringed bass, vocals ("Dreams Never End" and "Doubts Even Here")
Gillian Gilbert – synthesizers and programming, guitars, spoken words ("Doubts Even Here")
Stephen Morris – drums, synthesizers and programming

Technical Credits:
Martin Hannett – production
Chris Nagle – engineering
John and Flood – engineering assistants

Artwork:
Peter Saville