New Order
Movement

Electro pop? no... but saying "Dark" can be dangerous because today with "Dark" we get a completely wrong idea! And yet it's not even Dance.

Dear reviewer and commenter friends, what I'm about to review today is a CD that I recommend to all lovers of melodic and digital music with a particular taste for retro.
It's a beautiful CD for its simplicity and melody that seems futuristic despite being recorded in '81. I'm talking about electronic, digital, and computerized music, which many call "Dance '80," but I call "Synth-pop" (even if it doesn’t involve synthesizers but simple keyboards) because one day I bought a CD titled "The Best Of Dance 80" and realized that it wasn't what I was looking for. What I want is Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, OMD, Ultravox, etc., etc.

But what about New Order? An absolutely fantastic group, their music is mysterious music because it is electronically a middle ground between cheerful and dark; many tracks can be understood differently depending on how we absorb the high psychedelic level they convey.

It all started with Joy Division and the suicide of the singer Ian Curtis, the remaining band members did not give up and continued to play despite his absence, but it was only with the addition of Gillian Gilbert that the band would completely recover, becoming "New Order." In this "Movement" album, Curtis’s voice is still temporarily replaced by the guitarist (Gillian Gilbert on the keyboard), and it's an album that I consider very special. Special because at first listen, it seems like an ordinary energetic synth-pop record, which today might be labeled as predictable or "already heard," but each track contains a bit of "Dark Essence": meaning in the melodic there's "Forced and a bit closed melodic" which creates the peculiarity of the "dark melody," a melody that's not easy, sometimes sad and dramatic, making it unique. It is always said about this CD: Summer tries too much to imitate Curtis in his voice and self-ridicules, but frankly, this is the end of Joy Division, and it is the beginning of New Order.

The album kicks off with "Dreams Never End" very sad despite being accompanied by a lovely guitar, followed by "Truth" phantasmagorical and mystical with a fascinating base of synthetic percussions.
"Senses" reminds me a bit of Depeche Mode, maybe because of the use of somewhat metallic percussions reminiscent of auto workshops and factories as in "People are People," but it’s a song that hits the listener with the particularity of "transformation," on a somewhat dark base guitar and vocals squirm in different contexts making everything very strange, very particular, very fascinating, and very psychedelic. "Chosen time" is a bit more cheerful, characterized by the use of digital synth sound impulses, the same happens in the "depressing "Icb" that starts with a simple bass and drum game but gradually builds up with the intervention of the guitar and especially the keyboard. After "The Him" with elevated mysticism and various interesting accelerations, comes the track which in my opinion is the most beautiful and noteworthy: "Doubts Even Here" where the keyboard draws a dramatically melodic horizon that, like few other songs, can make me "travel."
It concludes with "Denial" which is perhaps the most lively and dynamic but contains a touch of epicness.

I recommend the album to those who (more or less) know what I’m talking about, this music is certainly underestimated despite being "Philosophically" intriguing.