The early New Order struggled to find a new sound, so they rotated vocalists, recorded a reggae cover, tried to be Joy Division and then, with new keyboard player Gillian Gilbert, discovered the new ‘80s sound: synths and beats. Added to this were vocalists Bernard Sumner’s somewhat eccentric lyrics – often frivolous and surreal in contrast to Curtis’ anguish and despair and with this New Order finally began to emerge as a fresh entity.
When the band released their third album "Low-Life" was a sort of tension between bandmates, Morris and Gilbert, who were married to each other, were also married to the idea of continuing with the electronic sound, while Peter Hook, the one who had a beard during punk and wore biker jackets and boots when everyone else was wearing Breton caps and espadrilles, was not keen to progress with synths. The result was a lot of tension and disagreement. Added to this was the fact that the band, now finally enjoying the success that had escaped their grasp after Joy Division ended,
As a result, they released "Brotherhood" kinda of ironic name for a record born of conflict was not a tidy collection of like-minded songs, the kind of done in a schizophrenic mood where we were trying to do one side synthesizers and one side guitars, but it does sound peculiar.
Most of Brotherhood is pretty intense, starting with the claustrophobic opener "Paradise", to the lyrically powerful "All Day Long" a song about child abuse, the blurred a"As It Was When It Was" and the bluntly-named "Weirdo", then it comes the side two, as the kids with their vinyls call it, begins with a delight, the album version of the cult classic "Bizarre Love Triangle", one of New Order’s greatest singles.
Like all the best New Order singles, "Bizarre Love Triangle" is both thunderous and yearning, it’s followed with the entirely contrasting "All Day Long", which starts quiet and ends epically and somewhat guitarishly "Elegia": with its lyric about an abused child, it’s possibly the New Order song with the quietest anger. "Angel Dust", with "Every Second Counts", a gorgeous song and ends the inferior single "State Of The Nation".
The album has aged well, due its dense sound contains both energy and determination, everything here works and sound like New Order in essence and this new edition of Brotherhood features a generous dose of extra material, including demos, remixes and instrumentals, and tracks from the little-known Salvation soundtrack. They’re all enjoyable and a welcome addition for fans, of which there are many
Brotherhood The Definitive Edition Track List:
CD 1: Brotherhood 2024 Remaster
DVD 2
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