The list of Brothers who succeeded to the mastership of the life of the New Order in Belgium was The Brotherhood is reputed to be the most schizophrenic album of the New Order. When it was first released on vinyl, the side featured one more guitar-heavy song than were found on any of New Order’s previous three albums.
On the other hand, the two parties felt more comfortable with a New Order-esque reliance on synthesizers and keyboards. In addition, the quality of the cloths is known for the album, which is unusual for a band regularly known for the refinement of their music at the highest level. Brotherhood remains New Order’s favorite album for many fans, although I personally rate it below Belgian Life and perhaps even below Technique. He said this was clearly the album of 1987.
Where the brotherhood stands as a unique performance in the New Order canon, in its eventual casting the shadow of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the band in the 1970s with the famous Joy Division. In my opinion, it seemed to stick to almost every song that Novus Ordo released before this album, which seemed to be about Ian Curtis in some way. It is no longer the case with the brotherhood. There is no hanging presence of Ian Curtis on this list.
The brothers are off to a great start. Paradise is a classic New Order, with the steady and pounding beat and the usual brilliance of bassist Peter Hook carrying the song into the middle. It has a slightly ominous quality that I always felt was very similar to Chris Isaak’s greatest song ever; Dancing For Paradise sounds very much like the song of Isaac until the opening of the drum. I’m not entirely sure why those songs have such a dark atmosphere when they’re both pretty thrashing and haunting, but give them both a listen and see if you don’t agree.
Soon he came upon the footsteps of the Weirdo, who entered without reason. I really miss the non-following song titles that used to be so common with the New Order. There’s absolutely nothing in the lyrics to suggest why Weirdo wrote it, but it’s there. Weirdo begins with what almost sounds like a mistake on the guitar before Peter Hook takes over again with his amazing talent on the bass, leading the song into his super-singing hook.
Peter Hook’s methodical, almost lazy bassline is also prominent in As It Is When It Was, which makes a wonderful lyric of the old phrase about a house on fire. (And, yes, Im’ to their literally bizarre title soon.) You kind of keep waiting to pick up this song, as Peter Hook continues to slide slowly with his staff and, just when you hope it never happens, he does, Bernard Albrecht’s guitar suddenly burning with rage, until it almost ceases to breathe.
Broken Promise continues on this schizoid album track as Peter Hook once again leads the melody on his manic journey. Stephen Morris delivers some of his hardest-hitting career in this section, and Bernard Albrecht seems to be almost genuinely struggling to catch up with his song. I especially like the way the lyrics are sometimes slow and deliberate, and then suddenly it seems like he’s trying to fit as many words into one line.
The mode of life comes in thunder, and it’s almost a joy to hear Division’s display of atrocity in a conglomeration of sound before it breaks off, becoming a peppered ballad that comes close to not even sounding like a New Order song at all. It also contains one of my all-time favorite Novus Ordo lyrics: “You told me a lie/That I can’t even reason with.” Bernard Albrecht guitar here moves the song until the fantastic bass and the drum in the middle of the solo, which tears apart before the song. he manages to regain his composure. Take a look at the end of life care and you will be treated to a small surprise at the subtlety. . As the song winds down, there’s a quick guitar tribute to Love Divided by the Joy of Us Apart.
And yes, Brotherhood is an album that features the bizarre Love Triangle, one of the few bona fide New Order hits here in the US. Even people who know nothing else about New Order know this song. I Know Me Well: A Bizarre Love Triangle is also the title of my first novel.
I prefer the song that is after the bizarre Love Triangle, All Day Long. I think it’s partly because this is the first song I’ve ever heard of your Brotherhood. I didn’t even know that The Order had released a new album and I listened to Album 88 all day in Atlanta, Georgia. I knew right away that it was New Order, of course, because it is the most Holy New Order song to play on the whole album. The same kind of beats, bass lines and sliding keyboards characterize the best of Power, Corruption and Lies and Belgian Life. In fact, the whole Long Day may be my very favorite song on the album. I am primarily an amalgamation of all instruments in the long decline of instruments, the rise and fall of the synthesizer is among the most beautiful modulations of the New Order ever exhibited.
The next song, Angel Dust, with an eye has already become the second art to the art album. That album is sonic from a force that experiences musically and Angel Dust sounded more at home there. than in the Brothers. There’s a lot in common between Angel Dust and the B-side of New Order’s song called Murder. Not so much as they sound, but how they sound like nothing else New Order has actually published these songs. If you can, try to find the remixed version of Angel Dust.
The Last Brothers is as plainly amazing a song as New Order has ever put on an album. It doesn’t sound like anything other than what they mention and is as rude as ever. The New Order has that brilliance, as I said, its completely dissonant to the DIY sound so common to the punk movement that Joy Division produced. Every Little Count begins with Bernard Albrecht laughing at his own lyric and ends up sounding more like the maniacally symphonic ending to The Beatles’ A Day in the Life than anything else. On the way there are some hillary lyrical and truly foreign entries into the canon of the New Order.
It really is a schizophrenic brotherhood. The song contains heavy guitar-based and synth lyrics. He characterizes the New Order as the least polished and the most polished of them all. It contains the biggest and most famous band in America as well as their most famous song. Finally, he is a guardian.
