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Rating: Inevitably, I can say that there are many New Order albums that are worthwhile; “Power Corruption & Lies” stands out because it radically departs from the origins of Joy Division.
All the tracks are a clear one-way path of electronic with the total gravitational pull of life’s essence solely impressed by Morris' synthesizers, Hook's bass, Sumner's innovative and growing guitar and voice, palpable in a mix of innovative transformation, a stream of personality leaving behind the already exploited troubled past, where melodies in a fraction of a second immediately spring to the brain, sparking a simultaneous perception that triggers an uncontrollable fervor in the body, which will affect all the albums to follow.
And what else could there be but a cover that I would call ambiguous, a slightly decadent bouquet that might indicate the past or the fullness of a maturity reached; flowers, like music, can be allergic or can give the effect of an immediate sentimental personification.
To let yourself get caught up in the race, these ten tracks of a thrilling propulsion engage like an automatic switch. We are faced with an experimental and innovative album:
“Age Of Consent” - “We All Stand” - “The Village” - “5 8 6” - “Blue Monday” - “Your Silent Face” - “Ultraviolence” - “Ecstasy” - “Leave Me Alone” - “The Beach”
And these are the side effects during listening to those mentioned above.
- guitar, bass, cathartic synthesizers, fresh energy in an atomic floral explosion
- sparkling drums and percussion that personify the hundreds of intoxicating champagne bubbles that jump, ready to catapult into your nostrils the moment you bring the glass to your lips
- electric guitars, suffocated by the percussion and synthesizers, where voices and background voices galvanize exciting the soul
- but here's an apparently soft introduction, yet after a few seconds, lo and behold! May the adrenaline be with us and let there be musical orgasm!
- but as it may seem, a more painful track always appears, like a pause of reflection in the bitter and real reality, and then you cast a glance at the sky, on a silent night where a shooting star gives hope that the wish will come true
- then the instrumental track that paradoxically in the general context of Power, Corruption & Lies, floats among sweet synthesizers and percussion generating sentimental thoughts
- and then, sometimes you seem to be in the middle of the psychedelic lights of an amusement park, sometimes a few cowbells grazing escape, and sometimes you feel like you're in the middle of an amazing race of adult schoolchildren with smocks smeared with ink and markers and with a big bow in front like an Easter egg...
In conclusion, an unblemished, incarnate, ingenious, perfect album; therefore, the first experiment has essentially succeeded!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Age of Consent (05:16)
Won't you please let me go?
These words lie inside they hurt me so
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
I'm not the kind that needs to tell you
Just what you want me to
I saw you this morning
I thought that you might like to know
I received your message in full a few days ago
I understood every word that it said
And now that I've actually heard it
You're going to regret
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what you want me to
You're not the kind that needs to tell me
About the birds and the bees
Do you find this happens all the time?
Crucial point one day becomes a crime
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
And I'm not the kind that needs to tell you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
03 The Village (04:36)
When a new life turns towards you
And the night becomes a bay
We shall remain forever
Everyone who meets his way
Oh, our love is like the flowers
The rain and the sea and the hours
Oh, our love is like the flowers
The rain and the sea and the hours
When the rain falls to the sea
They'll be waiting for you and for me
And the sky reflects our image
Trying to sleep right through our lives
Oh, our love is like the earth
The sun and the trees and the birth
Oh, our love is like the earth
The sun and the trees and the birth
I am still here two days later
Same place, same time
And I'm stuck here two years too long
Same place, the wrong time
Oh, our love is like the flowers
The rain and the sea and the hours
Oh, our love is like the flowers
The sun and the sea and the hours
Their love died three years ago
05 Your Silent Face (06:00)
A thought that never changes
Remains a stupid lie
It's never been quite the same
No hearing or breathing
No movement, no color
Just silence
Rise and fall of shame
A search that shall remain
We asked you what you'd seen
You said you didn't care
Sound formed in a vacuum
May seem a waste of time
It's always been just the same
No hearing or breathing
No movement, no lyrics
Just nothing
A sign that leads the way
The path we can not take
You've caught me at a bad time
So, why don't you piss off?
06 Ultraviolence (04:52)
Who saw those dark eyes?
Who saw those dark eyes?
Tears come by
Deep within
Burn my skin
All those years gone by
In the heat of the night
All those years gone by
Who felt those cold hands?
Who felt those cold hands
Touch my skin
Deep within
Burn my soul?
Fell to the ground where I was found
All those years ago
All those tears ago
All those years ago
Everybody makes mistakes
Everybody makes mistakes
Even me
Just be free
This is a place where in the end
It happens in our world within
Time to go
Time to go
08 Leave Me Alone (04:38)
On a thousand islands in the sea
I see a thousand people just like me
A hundred unions in the snow
I watch them walking, falling in a row
We live always underground
It's going to be so quiet in here tonight
A thousand islands in the sea
It's a shame
And a hundred years ago
A sailor trod this ground I stood upon
Take me away everyon when it looks down
From my head to my toes
From the words in the book
I see a vision that would bring me luck
From my head to my toes
Through my teeth, through my nose
You get these words wrong
You get these words wrong
Every time
You get these words wrong
I just smile
But from my head to my toes
From my knees to my eyes
Every time I watch the sky
For these last few days leave me alone
But for these last few days leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
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