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After the success of 2001’s Get Ready album - and 2002’s Retro New Order return with a Krafty new single.

Krafty by New Order

After the success of 2001’s Get Ready album - and 2002’s this-is-how-you-do-it four CD box set Retro - one of Manchester’s finest ever bands - New Order - return with new single Krafty.

After the planet-shagging success of 2001’s Get Ready album - and 2002’s this-is-how-you-do-it four CD box set Retro - one of Manchester’s finest ever bands - New Order - return with new single Krafty.

Produced by legendary studio nob-twiddler John Leckie (the man behind the desk for The Stone Roses LP and Radiohead’s The Bends - a producer whose credits include bands such as: CAST, Muse and Kula Shaker - as well as tracks by ex-Take That member Mark Owen) Krafty is the kind of perfect pop at which New Order have long excelled.

It’s bass-driven, machine-like and ridiculously catchy and the first single to be lifted from New Order’s forthcoming - eighth - studio album, Waiting For The Sirens’ Call.

There is no other band that quite unites both “spotty students and football hooligans” - as guitarist and front-man Bernard Sumner has said - as well as housewives, rock stars, dance-heads, the art school set and the mainstream, indie-lovers and general nutters.

No other band that can wring such emotion from machines, or make guitars sound so fresh. No one else is so spiky, so startling, innovative and inspirational; no one else quite makes pop music in the same way – pop music designed to “tickle the brain” – music that hits the heart as well as the head.

In 2005, when ever other up-and-coming band cites Joy Division and New Order as inspirations, it’s fantastic to have the real deal back and on such blistering form.

Aside from countless bootleg/live recordings and numerous singles (most – in particular for the albums up to 1989’s Technique featuring tracks not appearing on any contemporary albums) the following is a list of the main New Order albums.

A selected New Order album discography:

Movement (1981)
Power, Corruption and Lies (1983)
Low-Life (1985)
The Very Best of New Order (1985)
Brotherhood (1986)
BBC In Concert (1987)
New Order Substance 1987 (1987)
Technique (1989)
John Peel Sessions (1990)
The Greatest Hits of New Order (1990)
BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert (1992)
Republic (1993)
On the Edge Radio Show (1993)
BBC In Concert (1993)
In Concert New Rock (1994)
? - (The Best of) New Order (1994)
? - (The Rest of) New Order (1995)
Get Ready (2001)
Retro (2002)
Waiting For The Sirens’ Call (2005)

Krafty is out now, as is the full-length Waiting For The Sirens’ Call - on CD only - both from London Records.

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