New Order’s back catalogue isn’t big on acoustic ballads, but As It Is When It Was – an understated highlight of Brotherhood – is a beautiful example. Steve “Silk” Hurley’s remix turned it into streamlined, straightforward house music, but the idiosyncrasies of New Order’s approach to the genre are part of the appeal. Fine Time (1989)Ī baffling choice for a first single from Technique – largely instrumental, not much of a melody – Fine Time is still impossibly exciting: an urgent, clattering rhythm track, acid house squelches, sampled voices. But its title track – the only album title track New Order have recorded – shines, thanks to a beautiful melody and a yearning Bernard Sumner vocal. The music isn’t awful, just workmanlike and uninspired the lyrics, however, are frequently abysmal. The album of the same name was a disappointment and probably New Order’s creative nadir.
But that is no reflection on the song itself, which is great, powered by a compellingly anthemic chorus.
Shellshock is that rare thing: a New Order single that hasn’t dated terribly well – the overload of n-n-n-nineteen stuttering samples and the synth sounds on the 12in version mark it out as product of its time.
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