By Russ Espinoza
keyboardist Gillian Gilbert said the venerable British five-piece plans to release an EP before year’s end.
The timeless New Wavers reunited in 2011 after a four-year divorce without founding bass player (and original Joy Division member) Peter Hook. In January they released a curtailed studio album, “Sirens’ Call,” featuring eight holdover cuts from the bands’ Waiting for the Sirens’ Call sessions nearly a decade ago.
, the band has been writing and aims to record in September, “once the kids have all gone back to school.”
“We’re waiting on (vocalist Bernard Sumner’s) lyrics. But itap been sunny this week, so he can’t possibly write when itap sunny, but we want to do things now,” Gilbert said. “We don’t want to be like the old New Order and keep everyone waiting for years, we want to be the new New Order. We’ve been writing in short bursts, so we’ll just work on four songs at a time instead of waiting another two years to finish an album.”
Fortunately for the band’s many trans-generational devotees, fresh material wasn’t in New Order’s best laid plans. A fleeting two-gig tryst in Paris and Brussels was the impetus for their most recent reassembly. But we all know what becomes of “best laid plans.”
“We did one year, and then another, and now we’re writing and planning to release more music next year,” Gilbert said. “It’ll come to an end one day, but we don’t know when. You can never tell with New Order. Just when you think the band is coming to an end, it takes off again.”
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Russ Espinoza is a Texas-based writer and new contributor with Reverb. Find him on Twitter at @NteByNmenclatur.
