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| Pitchfork |
 New Order may be gone, but it'll take a while before any of their members' follow-up bands feel like more than side projects. A group like Bad Lieutenant-- including Bernard Sumner and latter-day Order member Phil Cunningham, with Stephen Morris also on hand-- is always going to be compared, rather than considered.
In that sense-- and that sense only-- it's a good thing Never Cry Another Tear is such an unassuming album: It's so breezily unambitious as to make the comparison feel unfair, even when you can't avoid it. It's all too common for famous musicians to talk about how they made a record mostly for their own amusement, but this album really does feel like that: relaxed, not overthought, indeed hardly thought at all. Sumner, guitarist Cunningham, and third key member Jake Evans are happy to share your attention, even if it means everything on the record is a minute too long to keep it. "Running Out of Luck" starts purposefully and wanders happily away into indifferent jangle-rock; "Head Into Tomorrow" switches wistful guitar figures for draggy vocals from Evans. It's as if the musicians are passing the spotlight between them like a game controller-- Not sure how to do this bit. Fancy a go, mate?...full text |
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| Guardian |
| It was easy to get excited at the time, but in retrospect there was something disappointing about New Order's noughties reunion. The albums they released certainly weren't bad, but never threatened to scale the heights of Technique or Low Life. The perennially noisome figure of Billy Corgan was involved. And, somewhere along the way, New Order lost their mystique: the sense that something unsolved and impenetrable lurked at the core of even their most commercial records, the feeling that you could never confidently predict what they were going to do next: go disco? Release a football single? Turn up on the set of Baywatch? Perhaps it was something to do with the band's vastly increased media accessibility, or their elevation to mainstream national treasurehood. Out went live videos obliquely titled Taras Shevchenko and Pumped Full of Drugs, in came knockabout biopics in which Peter Hook was portrayed by Ralph Little of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps fame. Either way, New Order appeared to have entered a comfortable, dependable middle age. You could certainly argue they'd earned it, having spent their 20s breaking enough new ground to last anyone a lifetime - but the sense that a certain thrill had gone was inescapable....full text |
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| Independent |
Ironically, while younger bands strive to revive the sound and mood of Joy Division, Bernard Sumner's subsequent career has sometimes seemed like a desperate flight from his earlier group.
So with New Order similarly consigned to the past, it's surprising to find that his new band Bad Lieutenant features both drummer Stephen Morris and auxiliary guitarist Phil Cunningham from the last New Order line-up, which lends a sheen of familiarity to much of Never Cry Another Tear. The important new addition is singer/guitarist Jake Evans, whose vocal contributions on three of these tracks lends the new line-up the flavour of Doves. His arpeggiated guitar parts, meanwhile, add distinct folk-rock touches to much of the album, akin to R.E.M. or The Byrds. But as before, it's Sumner's input which is decisive: whether essaying neat, understated couplets like: "I know it's hard for you to run away/Sometimes it's better just to turn the other way", or sketching out his usual hard-done-by sentiments in songs such as "Twist Of Fate" and "Running Out Of Luck", he never seems pushed beyond his comfort zone – and in the case of the single "Sink Or Swim", uses a vocal melody so familiar it's hard not to imagine he's recycling. Only "Dynamo" heads for new ground, and then it's terrain comprehensively mapped out by The Who in "Won't Get Fooled Again...full text |
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