“The Village” by New Order

"The Village" sits on Power, Corruption & Lies, the second New Order album, released by Factory Records in May 1983. All four members share the writing credit (Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert), and the band produced the record themselves, with Michael Johnson engineering and Mark Boyne and Barry Sage assisting.

This is where the synthesisers really moved in. Set beside their 1981 debut, Movement, the album leans far harder on electronics, splicing the band's post-punk roots with electronic music until the tags pile up: synth-pop, new wave, dance-rock, take your pick. It drew wide acclaim and keeps turning up whenever people rank the best albums of the 1980s, and in 2010 the Royal Mail put Peter Saville's cover on a stamp, one of ten classic sleeves by British acts it honoured.

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