Getting Restless

There’s a bit of a buzz going around about New Order this week with the release of ‘Restless’, an advance single for the Music Complete album, which itself is due out on 25 September. In case it’s not obvious from the title of this blog, and the various New Order related posts, everythingsgonegreen reserves a special place in its increasingly dark heart for the music of New Order. The 2013 album Lost Sirens was something of a stop-gap album, a poor excuse for fresh material, given that it contained only previously shelved tracks from the Waiting for the Sirens’ Call (2005) sessions. So Music Complete will be the now five-piece band’s first set of new material in a decade. And although New Order continues to function sans bass player extraordinaire Peter Hook, Music Complete marks the return of original keyboard player Gillian Gilbert. Here’s ‘Restless’ …