New Order: Low-Life (Import, 180g) Vinyl LP NAD / National Album Day and its expansive 2024 follow-up

and its expansive 2024 follow-up

Roy Samuel Reid was christened I-Roy by Harry Mudie

the Brooklyn label Bastard Jazz Recordings has trailblazed a unique path in the world of independent record labels

but experimental noises still pop up throughout the record

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New Order: Low-Life (Import, 180g) Vinyl LP NAD / National Album Day and its expansive 2024 follow-upLow Life is the New Order album that marks their complete transformation from post punk caterpillars into synth pop butterflies. While they'd been leaning in a poppier direction on songs like "Age of Consent" and "Temptation," this was the LP where everything just kind of clicked. Check out "Love Vigilantes," and "Perfect Kiss" for perfect examples of that pop sound that would later be refined and injected into their later hits. Eight tracks total,