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| 0.0 | NeoOrder | June 14th 07 |
I love this album. BLT is just one of those anthems you want to play over and over again. Every little Counts is a suberb closer, possibly the bands best since "Decades" on Closer (Joy Division). The rest of the album takes a few listens, but is great once you get into it.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | November 9th 21 |
An album where the songs either really fully commit to synthpop or almost don't use synths at all, whilst somehow making the album feel coherent - that alone is a feat. The vocals are very different from anything they have previously put out and feel a lot more like a pop band's - and it works sometime but not always. 1 and 2 are clear examples of that,1 being a bit more synthy and 2 being almost dream pop in tone and more pop than dream in the chorus. 3 is a well crafted song but not a super engaging one, being slower and more relaxed, but still with lots of chorus on the guitars. 4 starts off on a classic NO bassline, but unfolds into a relatively underwhelming poppy song that has some great moments and a scarce few quite awkward ones. Again it gets quite a lot more abrasive near the end which is nice. 5 is another pretty forgettable albeit well crafted song that was quite low in volume for me for some reason. 6 is definitely the flagship track here and is super synthy, then 7 is a nice instrumental that is again more on the dreamy/shoegazey side of the album. 8 is another very funfull-on synthpop track, though the vocals don't always convince me and the track feels like it could be a bit more explosive - super fun still. 9 is a weird, kinda naive, angelo branduardi almost sounding conclusion track that doesnt excite me. Overall clearly not their best and only a few tracks to cherry pick, but a decent and consistent enough album nonetheless. 3.6
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| 4.5 superb | charlopiano | November 11th 20 |
It was so obvious that this would become one of my favorite of all timer
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| 3.5 great | Alabaster Jones | September 25th 15 |
Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, and Stephen Morris, the guys behind New Order and also Joy Division, are some of the most influential people in the entire post-punk genre. That said, they are also highly influential when it comes to dance music, and with albums like Brotherhood, it's not hard to see why. Musically, it's a bit different from releases like Low-Life, with a first half that harkens back to the Joy Division days with electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and an emphasis on atmosphere. The second half of the album brings it back to the 80's dance scene, with such classics as "Bizarre Love Triangle" stealing the show. Altogether, it's a really solid album with some flashes of true brilliance shining through on tracks like "Paradise" and "As It Is When It Was", so it's quite impressive that despite the creative clashes the band members were having, they were able to release a record as cohesive as this.
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| 4.5 superb | lurxy | April 13th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | jsaadia | October 16th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Timmy | January 14th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | MvdW | November 25th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Brabiz | July 15th 22 |
| 2.5 average | katkac | March 12th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cam | January 30th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | mrdisco | January 21st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | fog CONTRIBUTOR | August 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jerrad | July 3rd 21 |
| 3.0 good | fifek | June 29th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | bSmith | May 13th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | KOZAKY | March 21st 21 |
| 3.0 good | Juuso | February 7th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jrzg85 | December 18th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | samsid | October 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | kevbogz | August 6th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aranox | July 30th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | hel9000 | June 20th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zeuzo | May 9th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | CRX | May 2nd 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | AriDoe | November 30th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | BeeRyan | November 11th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | xgausez | October 22nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juca89 | September 23rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | ElSomni | July 30th 19 |
| 3.5 great | wg98 | June 8th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Stkyle | May 29th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juanpa | April 17th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | El Olam | April 12th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Boivin | March 8th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Fear | January 1st 18 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | December 2nd 17 |
| 2.0 poor | igi78 | September 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Miguee7 | August 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jan555 | July 5th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Alexxx | June 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Noakesy | March 13th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | KevinMM | March 3rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Luisito | February 1st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | DarthGL | September 25th 16 |
| 3.5 great | p4p | August 22nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gueero | August 13th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Lord3 | August 1st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Saul | July 27th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Blaacs | July 22nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | AtfullS | July 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | PaabL | July 7th 16 |
| 3.5 great | marggy | April 22nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | ellagos | April 17th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | April 3rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | MsPinky | March 11th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom Read CONTRIBUTOR | March 6th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Titan | December 20th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | daFigz | November 22nd 15 |
| 3.5 great | SmersH | September 28th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | F1Aaron | September 27th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lassie | July 12th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dav85 | February 1st 15 |
| 3.5 great | Loge | January 31st 15 |
| 4.5 superb | alin1 | December 28th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Log S. | August 11th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sebe | February 2nd 14 |
| 3.0 good | Skoj | December 20th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Snowden | September 26th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | heck | August 22nd 13 |
| 2.5 average | joomisy | August 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kalhur | June 28th 13 |
| 3.5 great | kitsch | March 17th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | iGuter | March 8th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | oswing | December 11th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Simon K. STAFF | November 15th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Melanin | October 6th 12 |
| 2.5 average | bobbi | October 5th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | raithen | August 22nd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yay | February 26th 12 |
| 3.5 great | vivapo | December 12th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Tom93M | November 3rd 11 |
| 2.5 average | Skipdog | September 21st 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | tuttle | December 21st 10 |
| 4.5 superb | mdenn69 | October 20th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | djigor | July 31st 10 |
| 3.5 great | IAJP | July 15th 10 |
| 2.5 average | natey | May 5th 09 |
| 3.0 good | MrHell | August 28th 08 |
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