Dusted this off tonight for the first time in quite a while. Those first two New Order albums really were lessons in how to make just two chords work, weren’t they? But I like this more than Movement (as imperfect as it still is); always thought that was essentially the third Joy Division album that we never got, but PC&L is where you hear New Order actually becoming themselves. I think even “Blue Monday” still had the ghost of Ian Curtis hanging over it, but the album sees them finally moving on, even though Stephen Morris admitted the drum part from “Age of Consent” was the same as “Love Will Tear Us Apart”…
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