“Dreams Never End” by New Order

"Dreams Never End" comes from Movement, the first New Order album, which Factory put out in November 1981, and the whole record was made in the long shadow of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis's suicide the year before. The writing is shared four ways, among Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner.

Martin Hannett produced it, with John Leckie and Chris Nagle engineering and Flood among the assistants. Movement carries Joy Division's dark post-punk forward with more synthesizer in the blend while keeping its feet in rock, and it got a cool reception at the time. Later critics came round, hearing it as the bridge between the old band and the dance records New Order would go on to make.

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