| Artist |
New Order |
| Album Title: |
Movement |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Electronica/Dance: Synth Pop |
| Format |
Vinyl |
| Released |
11/13/1981 |
| Label |
Factory (US) |
| Catalog No |
FACTUS 50 |
| Bar Code No |
none |
| Packaging |
LP Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| A1.
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Dreams Never End (3:13)
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| A2.
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Truth (4:37)
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| A3.
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Senses (4:45)
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| A4.
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Chosen Time (4:07)
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| B1.
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ICB (4:33)
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| B2.
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The Him (5:29)
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| B3.
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Doubts Even Here (4:16)
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| B4.
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Denial (4:20)
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| Date Acquired |
12/13/2021 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Record Sale Event |
| Purchase Price |
15.00 |
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Notes |
The artwork of the labels is identical to that of the UK labels except that the US labels are burgundy coloured.
Manufactured: Factory
A Factory Communications Product: FCL Stereo 33RPM
Publishing: Bemusic
Inner sleeve carries Factory anvil+cog logo plus
FCL Nr. 50
Vinyl appears black but is translucent red, purple, brown, or green when held up to light.
Repress, but still without barcode.
Back cover has a sticker (black on white background) :
FCL Nr. 50
Factory anvil+cog logo
Mfgd/Dist By
Rough Trade inc.
Berkeley California
415 5489212
Original press includes inner sleeve that carries Factory anvil+cog logo and cat# FCL Nr. 50 while others only have a white paper inner.
The artwork of the labels is identical to that of the UK labels except that the US labels are burgundy coloured.
Manufactured: Factory
A Factory Communications Product: FCL Stereo 33RPM
Publishing: Bemusic
Pressed with Quiex II vinyl formula. Appears black but is translucent red, purple, brown, or green when held up to light.
This pressing has a run-out groove width of around 1 cm; first pressing (New Order - Movement) is much wider.
Published By – Be Music
Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 13472
Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 13569
Manufactured By – Rough Trade Inc.
Distributed By – Rough Trade Inc.
Design – Grafica Industria, Peter Saville
Engineer – Chris Nagle
Engineer [Assistant] – Flood, John
Producer – Martin Hannett
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| Reviews |
Movement Review by John Bush:
Movement is a first hesitant step in the transition from Joy Division to New Order. After the tragic loss of Ian Curtis, the three remaining members of the former band added keyboardist Gillian Gilbert and soldiered on. Despite a relatively assured debut single ("Ceremony," which didn't appear on the album), the first New Order album revealed a band understandably caught up in mourning for its former lead singer. (But of course, themes of loss and isolation were hardly novel for them.) Movement was made up of songs written just after the suicide of Ian Curtis, and it was recorded with alternating vocal spots to see whose would fit best -- although neither bassist Peter Hook nor guitarist Bernard Sumner sounded quite worthy of the mantle. Sumner wound up taking lead on all the tracks except for "Dreams Never End" and "Doubts Even Here." At times, both vocalists' hesitancy makes it sound as if they were recording guide vocals for a Joy Division LP, expecting Ian Curtis to come in later. Despite the band's opaque lyrics, there are easily spotted references to Curtis all over the record, with despair and confusion reigning, especially on "Senses" ("No reason ever was given") and "ICB" ("It's so far away, and it's closing in"). More so than on any Joy Division record, it also revealed a group unafraid to experiment relentlessly in the studio until it had emerged with something unique. It showed, too, on tracks like the very hooky "Dreams Never End" or the insistently danceable "Chosen Time," some of the pop smarts that would flower fully later on in their career. Spurred on by producer Martin Hannett, despite his antagonistic relationship with the band (and perhaps, because of it), New Order produced a ghostly, brittle record, occasionally uptempo but never upbeat, with drum machines rattling and echoing over dark waves of synthesizers and Hook's iconic basswork. A masterpiece in the career of any other post-punk band, Movement paled only in comparison to the band's later work.
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