release date: Sep. 29, 1986
format: vinyl (FACT 150) / cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,61]
producer: New Order
label: Factory / MNW - nationality: England, UK
Tracklist: A) 1. "Paradise" (3 / 5) - 2. "Weirdo" (4 / 5) - 3. "As It Is When It Was" (4 / 5) - 4. "Broken Promise" (3,5 / 5) - 5. "Way of Life" (4 / 5) - - B) 1. "Bizarre Love Triangle" (4 / 5) - 2. "All Day Long" (3,5 / 5) - 3. "Angel Dust" (2,5 / 5) - 4. "Every Little Counts" (4 / 5)
4th studio album by New Order released as FACT 150 on Factory Records. I really loved the album back then, and equally as much as Low-Life (May 1985), but I tired of it after a year or two. I think, I felt it was too much alike the '85 album. Despite the fact that the band understood to reinvent itself and recorded another two fine successive albums after this, I didn't acquire them back then, and I simply had grown tired of the New Order sound and style, and perhaps basically tired of Peter Hook's bass-line hooks.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 stars ]
