Movement
Studio album by New Order
Released	13 November 1981
Recorded	1981
Genre	Post punk Alternative rock New Wave
Length	36:12
Label	Factory Records
Producer(s)	Martin Hannett
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
New Order chronology
	Movement (1981)	Power, Corruption & Lies (1983)

Factory Records Catalogue Number
FACT 50 Movement
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Movement was New Order's debut album, released in November 1981 on Factory Records. The album wasn't particularly well received by critics or consumers, only peaking at #30 on the UK album charts. Closer, an album the band had released just over a year before as Joy Division, reached #6. This is an album cover. ... A Studio Album is an album of regular studio recordings. ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by the surviving members of Joy Division following the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. ... November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Post-punk was a musical movement beginning at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid 1970s. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... The term New Wave has been used to describe several movements in art. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... FAC 115: Factory Records Stationery (1984) Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label, started in 1978 which featured several prominent musical acts, such as Joy Division, New Order, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and (briefly) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes . ... Martin Hannett (May 31, 1948 - April 18, 1991), sometimes credited as Martin Zero, was an innovative record producer who helped discover Joy Division and co-founded Factory Records with Tony Wilson. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 3_stars. ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by the surviving members of Joy Division following the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. ... Power, Corruption & Lies was the breakthrough album by Manchester band New Order, released in May 1983. ... FAC 115: Factory Records Stationery (1984) Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label, started in 1978 which featured several prominent musical acts, such as Joy Division, New Order, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and (briefly) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. ... Image File history File links Warningstripe_lightgrey. ... Image File history File links Warningstripe_lightgrey. ... Fac 51 Haçienda (also known as simply The Haçienda) was one of the most well known nightclubs in Manchester during the Madchester years of the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by the surviving members of Joy Division following the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. ... FAC 115: Factory Records Stationery (1984) Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label, started in 1978 which featured several prominent musical acts, such as Joy Division, New Order, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and (briefly) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. ... Closer is a 1980 album by Joy Division. ... Joy Division was a rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. ...

History

After the death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis and the subsequent shock for those surrounding him, the remaining members of the band elected to carry on, albeit under a new name - New Order. With the exception of two songs 'Ceremony' and 'In a Lonely Place' (unrecorded at the time of Curtis's death), all the material played would be new. Joy Division was a rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. ... Ian Kevin Curtis (July 15, 1956 – May 18, 1980) was a British singer-songwriter born in the Memorial Hospital, Old Trafford, Manchester. ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by the surviving members of Joy Division following the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. ...

A couple of songs on 'Movement' stem from the initial songwriting session the band undertook in the summer of 1980. 'Dreams Never End' and 'Truth' were both played at the initial New Order concerts (still played as trio) in the US that September. At this point it was still undecided as to who should be vocalist. The interim solution was that all three members took turns at singing before finally deciding that Bernard Sumner should take the main vocalist's role with Peter Hook as back-up (though he takes lead on 'Dreams Never End' and 'Doubts Even Here'). The introduction in November 1980 of Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris's girlfriend, lightened the burden on Sumner to have to play guitar and sing (something he found impossible to do simultaneously) and enabled the band to pursue a more electronic approach. Subsequently the remainder of the songs that appeared on 'Movement' were written and then recorded over a seven month period "in two big bits, and a whole lot of little bits" (Sumner's words), as well as 'Mesh', 'Cries and Whispers' (both early live staples and used as B-sides), 'Procession' and 'Everything's Gone Green', the latter forming a non-album single released as FAC53 in September 1981. Gillian Gilbert (born January 27, 1961 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) is a British musician, best known as a member of the Manchester band New Order and a founder member of The Other Two. ...

The producer of the album was once again Martin Hannett, who had worked with them as Joy Division. However the rapport between producer and band had in the ensuing time eroded. Hannett was in a legal dispute with Factory Records and suffering from substance and alcohol abuse, and the band members - themselves still coming to terms with having to write and arrange songs without Curtis's ear and lyric-writing ability - found him uncooperative. It was to be the last time they worked together. In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes . ... Martin Hannett (May 31, 1948 - April 18, 1991), sometimes credited as Martin Zero, was an innovative record producer who helped discover Joy Division and co-founded Factory Records with Tony Wilson. ... FAC 115: Factory Records Stationery (1984) Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label, started in 1978 which featured several prominent musical acts, such as Joy Division, New Order, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and (briefly) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. ...

As noted above, upon its release in November 1981 - just weeks after the Joy Division retrospective/live double album 'Still' - the album met with a lukwarm reception, with critics disappointed by what was perceived to be a lack of forward momentum after the 'Ceremony' single. It is rumoured that the band considered either re-mixing or even entirely re-recording the album, but time and financial constraints prevented this. In the event, a new song - 'Temptation' - would provide the band with the necessary impetus and a new direction. The term still is a contraction of the verb to distill. A still is an apparatus used to distill miscible or immiscible (eg. ...

Sound

As hinted above, the strained relationship between artist and producer mars the sound of the album, which has a certain 'grey' feel to it. (Compare four of 'Movement's songs recorded for BBC Radio 1's John Peel show in January 1981 to the album itself to clarify this comment). Musically, 'Movement' is a transitional album between the group's previous work as Joy Division and their 'mature' sound as witnessed on 'Blue Monday' and 'Power, Corruption and Lies' onwards. References to Ian Curtis are almost inevitable, appearing on 'ICB' (Ian Curtis Buried) and 'The Him', while the song 'Doubts Even Here' (featuring both Hook and towards the end Gilbert on vocals) attempts to match the grace and brutality of Joy Division songs such as 'Atmosphere' and 'Atrocity Exhibition'. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... Autobiography John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist. ... Blue Monday can refer to more than one thing. ... Power, Corruption & Lies is the breakthrough album by Manchester band New Order, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). ...

However differences to what came before are also apparent - 'Dreams Never End' is a surprisingly upbeat track and indeed the only one comprising of the classic guitar-bass-drums line up. 'Senses' flirts with guitar motifs funkier than anything before it, while the expansion of the sonic palette witnessed on 'Closer' continues here with synths on all but the opening track, electronic percussion (especially on 'Truth') and Hook's bass taking on a melodic role while Gilbert provides the low end, such as on 'Chosen Time' and 'Denial'. The staple of many later New Order works - the sequencer - is however not present; the first track to incorporate them - 'Everything's Gone Green' - was written at the same time but released separately as a single. The word sequencer can mean: a microsequencer in a computer CPU a music sequencer in the field of electronic music a DNA sequencer or a protein sequencer in the field of biology Sequencer (album) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise...

Artwork

The album's cover was designed by Peter Saville and is based on a Futurist poster by Fortunato Depero. 'F' refers to Factory Records / Factory Communications Limited and 'L' the roman numeral 50 - the album being classified as FAC50. The blue colour was chosen by the band, although initial copies in America had the same design with a white background. Peter Saville (born 1955 in Manchester, England[1]) is a graphic designer based in London. ... This article is about the art movement, futurism. ... Fortunato Depero (March 30, 1892 - November 29, 1960) was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer. ... The system of Roman numerals is a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, and was adapted from Etruscan numerals. ...

Track listing

(all songs written by New Order)

1. "Dreams Never End" – 3:13
2. "Truth" – 4:37
3. "Senses" – 4:45
4. "Chosen Time" – 4:07
5. "ICB" – 5:25
6. "The Him" – 5:29
7. "Doubts Even Here" – 4:16
8. "Denial" – 4:20

Personnel

• Bernard Sumner; Vocals, guitars, melodica, synthesizers & programming
• Peter Hook; 4 & 6 stringed bass, vocals ('Dreams Never End', 'Doubts Even Here')
• Gillian Gilbert: Synthesizers, guitars, spoken words ('Doubts Even Here')
• Stephen Morris: Drums, synthesizers & programming
• Martin Hannett: Production
• Chris Nagle: Engineering
• John and Flood: Assistants

Bernard Sumner (born Bernard Dicken, on 4 January 1956 in Salford, Lancashire, England) was the guitarist and keyboardist with Joy Division. ... Peter Hooky Hook (born February 13, 1956 in Salford, Lancashire) was the bass player for the English Post-Punk band Joy Division, and currently for the techno/rock band New Order. ... Gillian Gilbert (born January 27, 1961 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) is a British musician, best known as a member of the Manchester band New Order and a founder member of The Other Two. ... Stephen Morris is a musician in the Manchester, England, rock band New Order. ... Martin Hannett (May 31, 1948 - April 18, 1991), sometimes credited as Martin Zero, was an innovative record producer who helped discover Joy Division and co-founded Factory Records with Tony Wilson. ... Mark Ellis a. ...

Release details

• UK 12" – Factory Records (FACT 50)
• UK cassette – Factory Records (FACT 50C)
• UK CD (1993 re-release) – London Records (520 018-2)

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Chart positions

• UK – #30

See also

• New Order discography

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External links

• Movement on New Order Online
• Movement on World in Motion