Lost Sirens

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Lost Sirens
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Studio album by
New Order
Released11 January 2013 (2013-01-11)
Recorded2003–2004
Studio Real World (Box, England)
Length38:21
Label Rhino
Producer
New Order chronology
Waiting for the Sirens' Call
(2005)		Lost Sirens
(2013)		 Music Complete
(2015)

Lost Sirens is the ninth studio album by English rock band New Order. It was released on 11 January 2013 by Rhino Entertainment. The tracks featured on the album were recorded during the production of 2005's Waiting for the Sirens' Call .

Contents

It is the final album featuring bassist Peter Hook, who left the band in 2007 (almost 6 years before the album's release), and the only album by New Order produced from archival recordings. Lost Sirens drew mostly positive reviews, and it sold 4,678 copies in its first week in the United Kingdom. [1]

Production

As with Waiting for the Sirens' Call, Lost Sirens was written and performed by Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Phil Cunningham. It is the second New Order album recorded without Gillian Gilbert who left the band in 2001 to look after her family. The album was recorded at Real World Studios between 2003 and 2004; the production cost for the songs on both albums totalled £700,000.

The songs featured on Lost Sirens were originally intended for an album to be released shortly after Waiting for the Sirens' Call, but the songs were shelved after Hook left the group in 2007, and the album was never finished as planned.

"Hellbent" was previously released in 2011 as part of the compilation album Total: From Joy Division to New Order .

Release

Lost Sirens was originally scheduled for release in late 2012. In a Brazilian interview to promote the reunited band's appearance in São Paulo, Gilbert acknowledged issues with former member Hook, and stated there was "a lot going on behind the scenes on the copyright" delaying the album. [2] The band announced in December 2012 that the album would be released on 14 January 2013. Prior to release, the album was streamed on the Rolling Stone official website from 11 January 2013. [3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 65/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The A.V. Club C [6]
Consequence of Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Metro Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]
NME 6/10 [11]
Pitchfork 6.8/10 [12]
PopMatters 7/10 [13]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [14]

Lost Sirens received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 65, based on 14 reviews. [4]

The Independent's Andy Gill claimed that New Order's ninth outing "actually bests its parent album [Waiting for the Sirens' Call]". Gill particularly cited "I Told You So", "Sugarcane" and "Hellbent" as the album's better tracks. [8] Metro stated the album "offers few classics but will still delight fans of the band with its feelgood sound". [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Phil Cunningham

Lost Sirens track listing
No.TitleLength
1."I'll Stay with You"4:22
2."Sugarcane"4:50
3."Recoil"5:09
4."Californian Grass"4:35
5."Hellbent"4:27
6."Shake It Up"5:23
7."I've Got a Feeling"4:29
8."I Told You So" (Crazy World Mix)5:06

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Lost Sirens. [15]

Charts

Chart performance for Lost Sirens
Chart (2013)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [16] 171
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [17] 192
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [18] 155
French Albums (SNEP) [19] 137
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [20] 68
Scottish Albums (OCC) [21] 27
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [22] 74
UK Albums (OCC) [23] 23

Release history

Release history for Lost Sirens
RegionDateLabel
Netherlands [24] 11 January 2013 Warner
France [25] 14 January 2013
United Kingdom [26] Rhino
Australia [27] 18 January 2013Warner
Germany [28]
Italy [29] 29 January 2013
Japan [30] 6 March 2013

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