Released on 25 September 2015 "Music Complete" was the tenth studio album by English rock band New Order. It was their first released for the label Mute, the album features guest vocals from Elly Jackson of La Roux, Iggy Pop, and Brandon Flowers of The Killers. This was the band's first album with new bassist Tom Chapman, replacing the original bassist Peter Hook, and the first time to featured as a five-piece band, as original keyboardist and guitarist Gillian Gilbert returned to the band and Phil Cunningham, who initially replaced Gilbert remained in the band.
Music Complete marks a return to a more electronic direction compared to New Order's previous two albums, which had been more guitar-based. Guest backing vocals are provided by Denise Johnson and Dawn Zee, who have performed with the band on their last three albums.
Three years in silence and with the band fragmented, New Order hailed into the scene with their first album since "Waiting For The Siren's Call" circa 2005. The recovered Gilbert who along Morris and Sumner recorded and released one of the most long-awaited albums from that year, in spite the depart of Peter Hook, one of the most important founder member of the band since their days of Joy Division. The band achieved to overcome and the three altogether compelte a functionality since their days of "Technique", perhaps the reason the band baptised the album as "Music Complete".
The band achieved to sound younger even when they had to go into the 80s., to recovered that shape and vibe of the old days of yore, also a list of collaborators that helped to define the record that turned into a fantastic surprise for many, it was like the band decided to combine their 80's classic sounds and their fantastic 1993' album "Republic", achieving a cohesion long time ago forgotten.
From the opener "Restless" the band prepared the sound for the listener ears, a tune made of natural instrumentation, a solid drums, acoustic backgrounds and a gloomy electronica landscape well produced by Tom Rowlands, "Singularity" was a total collaboration by Tom Chapman, his bass sounded strong and complete to filled the void left by Hook, "Plastic" had that style Giorgio Moroder like propelled New Order into their good old days. "Tutti Frutti" was another example of that sound under direction of Elly Jackson (La Roux) she putted the voices into this eurodisco tune, "People On The High Line" had an Electronic band sound, "Stray Dog" was a misterious tune with some melacholy and dark taste thanks to Iggy Pop who read a poem by Sumners under a The Other Two instrumentation.
Now the band decided to take a look into their 80s style, here we come with the new wave, post punk and dance rock tunes, "Academic" is the most nostalgic, "Nothing But A Fool" had Ennio Morricone orchestration, and then the band passed into electronica with "Unlearn The Hatred", the album finished with euphorical "The Game", and finally "Superheated" vocals courtesy of Brandon Flowers,
The band achieved to reinvented themselves, no doubt the depart of Hook aided the band to created their most varied and substantial work in decades, it was easily New Order's best album since Technique, and probably their most musically diverse ever.
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