Singing rock lyrics surrounded by loud guitars and thumping drums provides a different sort of challenge to vocalists than other types of music. What makes a great rock and roll singer may not necessarily mean they are a great singer in comparison to those who excel in different genres. This truism works in reverse as ...
New Order’s third album Low-life is their most evenly brilliant effort to date. While Power, Corruption and Lies featured extraordinary highlights such as “Age of Consent”, “586”, “The Village” and “Your Silent Face” it also suffers from containing New Order’s only virtually unlistenable song “We All Stand”. Low-life, by contrast, features solid techno-rock from beginning ...
This article isn’t about pianos or guitars. The instruments that I’m writing this article about may be well known to some, yet at the same time, completely unknown to others. These instruments have been utilized by many musicians since their recent inception; you’ve probably heard them in quite a lot of songs, but wouldn’t recognize ...
As I have indicated at various times in various articles published here, my favorite rock band is the Manchester quartet that rose from the ashes of Joy Division. Upon the suicide of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, the remaining members recruited keyboardist Gillian Gilbert and rechristened themselves New Order. What followed was the transformation ...
New Order began life as Joy Division, which was a band notorious for its dark music and dark lyrics. Then, on May 18, 1980, the singer of Joy Division, Ian Curtis, hanged himself. At the time of Curtis’ suicide Joy Division was about to embark on its first American tour and had released the song ...
New Order’s follow-up to their masterpiece Low-life album was Brotherhood. Brotherhood has the reputation for being the most schizophrenic of New Order’s albums. When it was first released on vinyl, side one featured more guitar heavy songs than were found on any of the previous three New Order albums. On the other hand, side two ...
Control is the story of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. It chronicles his life from the end of high school until his suicide at age 23. The film is based on the memoir “Touching from a Distance” by his wife Debbie. Control portrays Ian Curtis as a depressed, confused and perpetually tormented young man ...
Joy Division is one of those unique bands that are unable to classify but also unable to distinguish whether they’re a cult- like legendary band or a precious indie secret. Considering that minimalist and epic are two words that come to mind when reviewing some of Joy Division’s work I would say they’re both. Most ...
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