New Order

With their second record (released in 1983), New Order made the finest album of their career, as well as the one of the best of the decade. It's a forward-looking fusion of dance and Post-Punk guitars that has yet to fall out of fashion. No record before or after has captured this fusion better than this record. A classic album.

Few rock bands have had as daunting a past to live up to, and overcome, as New Order. But
Power Corruption & Lies is a remarkable declaration of independence; for the first time
since lead singer Ian Curtis hanged himself three years ago, the survivors of Joy Division
have shrugged off the legacy of that band's grim, deathly majesty and produced an album
that owes as much to the currents of 1983 as to the ghosts of 1980. This record is... More >

The second or third Joy Division II album has occasioned disputation among the faithful. Some claim that it cynically recycles their riffs, while others think it raises that old new music to transcendent summits. Me, I find it relatively gentle and melodic in its ambient postindustrial polyrhythms, their nicest record ever. I also think it sounds pretty much like the others. (Grade - B+)