Music Complete

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Since the beginning, New Order thrived on a certain amount of internal friction, particularly between co-founders Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook. Thirty-five years on, the group’s first effort following Hook’s contemptuous departure, 2015’s <i>Music Complete</i> sounds surprisingly...complete. Hailed as a return to form, the album emphasizes the electronic side of the band’s dance-rock duality—it’s more “Mr. Disco,” less “Rock the Shack.” That might be due to the return of original keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, who’d spent the 2000s raising her children (their father, drummer Stephen Morri, remained in the band). It was Gilbert and Morris’ commitment to early computers and other studio innovations that drove New Order’s early-1980s groove, and their return as an unofficial writing partnership cannot be underestimated. .

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