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Sink or Swin- Bad Lietenant From the ashes of New Order comes Bad Lietenant formed by ever resiliant Bernard Sumner who also built New Order from the remains of Joy Division after the death of Ian Curtis.
Their first album isn't scheduled for release until October 6th but Amazon had a one week $2.99 prerelease sale of
Never Cry Another Tear yesterday to drum up some word of mouth on the album. Upon a few listenings I'm happy to report
Never Cry Another Tear is stonger than
Get Ready or
Waiting for The Sirens' Call, New Order's final two albums for Warner.
During this week the album will be available as a digital download exclusively through Amazon.com; subsequently, for one month beginning October 13, the full, physical CD can be purchased only at Amazon.com. On November 10, Never Cry Another Tear will be distributed to all other retail outlets via a partnership with Original Signal Recordings.
You can download the entire album for $2.99 at
Amazon.com until Tuesday October 6th when it's officially released.
Sink or Swin was released earlier this year as a single and at least four other songs on
Never Cry Another Tear that are strong enough to warrant release as singles.
The core of Bad Lietenant muscular frontline of three guitarists consisting of Sumner, Phil Cunningham, and Jake Evans. You will hear a lot of similarities to New Order, since Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris go way back to the earliest edition of Joy Division and guitarist Phil Cunningham has been associated with New Order since 2001's
Get Ready album. Bad Lietenant makes the final break with the Kraftwerk influenced sythensizer music that characterized so much of New Order's music in the Eighties and Nineties.
Never Cry Another Tear doesn't have the hit-or-miss quality of the final two New Order albums and the jangling three guitar crossfire seems to have provided inspiration to Summer who was suffering from a severe case of songwritting block in the final decade of New Order's existence.