Wednesday, April 03, 2019

New Order: Brotherhood (1986)

As noted in Discogs:
Peter Hook: "Listen to it and you can hear it has two different sides. There were battles raging on Brotherhood."

Bernard Sumner: "We'd always had that balance of electronics and band stuff. I was always pushing for electronics, and Hooky was always pushing for the band stuff, which was fair enough, I think we needed the band stuff. And by luck it got tipped the band way on Brotherhood. It was a very dense album, because we'd gone a bit mad on overdubs, so it was very layered, and very dense."
Allmusic notes that there is a rock side and a dance side. I prefer side two. I would also add that this is not a favourite of mine, even when it was released. The big hit from this record was Bizarre Love Triangle.

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