release date: Dec. 1981
format: vinyl (1986 reissue - FBN 8) / digital
[single rate: 4 / 5] [4,08]
producer: Martin Hannett
label: Factory Records - nationality: England, UK
Tracklist: A) 1. "Everything's Gone Green" (5 / 5) - - B) 1. "Cries and Whispers" (3,5 / 5) - 2. "Mesh" (3,5 / 5)
3rd single release by New Order as FBN 8 on Factory Benelux (sub-label of Factory Records residing in Belgium). The A-single track is wonderful early New Order playing a highly original and distinct synthpop moving further away from the trademarks of Joy Division, which explains why it wasn't included on the debut album Movement, released only two months prior to this. It also shows how the band grew out of the melancholy of post-punk and into a more positive alt. dance and synth pop. This release, actually has both elements of the new New Order and clear bonds to Joy Division in the two B-side tracks.
