Sunday, October 04, 2009

New Order? Nah, Bad Lieutenant --> Oh Yeah!


Never Cry Another Tear. When you think of break ups don't let it get you down. Bad Lieutenant wants you to move on.
New Order is the past. Peter Hook is not coming back and neither is New Order. The three remaining members of New Order have made a clean break. Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner,and Phil Cunningham return as Bad Lieutenant (also with Jake Evans). Never Cry Another Tear is their first effort. There is a familiar sound to this album, especially if you know the recent New Order products. That would be because of who they are New Order minus one. There are some stand out tracks like "Sink Or Swim", "Dyamano", "This Is Home", and "Head Into Tomorrow" that hearken back to the New Order days of "Regret" and "Get Ready" and show you a glimpse of what's to come with the elder statesman of post modern-new-wave-punk. For disclosure purposes I must add that Amazon.com had the entire album for sale as a download for $2.99 on 10/02/09 and I bought it when I might not have bought the entire album. Glad I did. So worth it. So go out and get your Bad Lieutenant and Never Cry another Tear.****(1/2)





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