Get Ready

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As a new century was getting underway, New Order returned with its hardest-rocking album yet: 2001’s <i>Get Ready</i>. The shift in sound was largely due to the fact that Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris—traditionally the more electronic-leaning members—were absent from the studio, leaving the rock-centric bassist Peter Hook and guitarist-singer Bernard Sumner on their own. They’d get assistance from producer Steve Osborne, who’d helped Lush transcend its shoegaze style on 1996’s <i>Lovelife</i> before working with rockers like U2, Starsailor, and Dove. Osborne was also an accomplished remixer, one who was comfortable at the exact intersection of rock and dance. As a result, <i>Get Ready</i> would fit in neatly with the emerging rock revival of the early 2000, with the album‘s slashing, guitar-sharpened lead single “Crystal” arriving right around the time The Strokes released their debut album. Once again, New Order was in the middle of the zeitgeist. .

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