New Order
Power, Corruption & Lies

THE REVIEW

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!