Music Complete by New Order

Music Complete, New Order's tenth studio album and still their most recent, came out on 25 September 2015, their first record for Mute. It's also the first without original bassist Peter Hook, who had left in 2007 after falling out with the others, and the first with the band as a five-piece: Tom Chapman takes over on bass, Gillian Gilbert is back on keyboards and guitar, and Phil Cunningham, who first came in to cover for her, stays put alongside Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris.

With Stuart Price in the producer credits, it sounds like a band remembering why it plugged in the synths in the first place: pulsing sequencers, clattering electronic drums, Sumner's plain, wistful voice floating over the top. "Singularity" is pure dancefloor propulsion. The guest spots stretch the palette, with La Roux's Elly Jackson, Iggy Pop and the Killers' Brandon Flowers all stepping up to the mic.

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