New Order have revealed a second song off their new album Music Complete, “Plastic.” We recently mentioned that much of the new album is a return to their danceable synthpop, and this new one is no exception. Listen below.
If you haven’t read it yet, check out Bill’s interview with New Order’s Gillian Gilbert. Here’s an excerpt about their songwriting process:
In the very early days, we used to just jam a lot. But then Bernard got into sequencers and came up with a few basslines. I joined and I didn’t know how to write songs, and it was completely mesmerizing to see the other three jam and record everything. We would record everything on a really cheap two-track so when you listened back it wasn’t a pure sound, you couldn’t really differentiate between instruments. It was just like a general sound that suggested notes but made you think “oh I’ll do that.” I remember doing the bassline to “Age of Consent” — it was only two notes but you think “Yeaahhhh!” I was so proud of those two notes! Bernard and Stephen were really into the technology and I used to play stuff that Bernard told me to play because there wasn’t a sequencer that could do that many tracks. So I had to learn how to play precisely by pretending to be a sequencer, which was a feat in itself. There’s not that many people that can do that.
Read the rest here.
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