New Order announce details of 10th album, Music Complete

New Order have announced details of their 10th studio album, Music Complete. Released via Mute, the followup to 2005’s Waiting For The Siren’s Call will be released on 25 September.

Produced mostly by New Order, with two tracks in the hands of the Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and one track, Superheated, featuring production from Stuart Price, their statement explains that this new album “finds the group revitalised”. It continues: “where the group has previously pushed toward electronics or guitars, here the two are in balance.”

This will of course be New Order’s first album without their original bassist, Peter Hook, whose longstanding feud with his former bandmates continues. In September 2014, Hook mocked the band’s announcement they had signed to Mute, and has previously described Sumner as a “twatto” and that he had “stolen” the band from him. Sumner has stated that without Hook, the band are “happier, without a doubt”.

It also marks a return for Gillian Gilbert, who has not featured on a New Order album since 2001’s Get Ready. Gilbert is joined by Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham, with long-term collaborator Peter Saville in charge of art direction.

Music Complete Tracklist:

1 Restless

2 Singularity

3 Plastic

4 Tutti Frutti

5 People On The High Line

6 Stray Dog

7 Academic

8 Nothing But A Fool

9 Unlearn This Hatred

10 The Game

11 Superheated