New Order - Movement (2019 Remaster)

When Movement was released in 1981 it was greeted with a lukewarm critical reception, but that was surely missing the point: it was a miracle it existed at all.

Traumatized by Joy Division singer Ian Curtis’s suicide in May 1980, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris were far from convinced they wished to continue. When they did go into the studio, having changed their name and adding Gillian Gilbert on keyboards, their producer, the drug-addled console genius Martin Hannett, ridiculed their naive musicianship.

Movement is as much Joy Division’s final album as New Order’s debut, tracing a strange and familiar, brittle trajectory, and bridging Joy Division’s gloom to the electronic epiphany that sparked and marked their reinvention as New Order.

This vinyl edition produced by Warner Music in 2025. Remastered audio with lacquers cut by Frank Arkwright.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Dreams Never End
2. Truth 
3. Senses
4. Chosen Time
5. ICB
6. The Him
7. Doubts Even Here
8. Denial