Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Album by New Order
Released	March 28, 2005 (UK) April 25, 2005 (USA)
Recorded	2003-2004
Genre(s)	Alternative
Length	57 minutes 9 seconds
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	New Order, Tore Johansson, John Leckie, Stephen Street, Stuart Price
Professional reviews
Rolling Stone (4/5) link AMG (3/5) link BBC N/R link Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) link The Age (3.5/5) link The Guardian N/R link New Musical Express (6/10) link XFM N/R link Uncut (3/5) link Release Magazine (6/10) link Indie London N/R link And We Danced (4.5/5) link RYM (4/5) link
New Order Chronology
Get Ready (2001)	Waiting for the Sirens' Call (2005)	N/A

Waiting For The Sirens' Call is the title of the 2005 album by New Order; their first on Warner Records. The album was released on 28 March 2005 in the United Kingdom and 25 April 2005 in the United States, and was preceded by the single "Krafty" in February. At least two other singles are expected to be released, including the title track of the album, and a track named "Jetstream" which features vocals by Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters. Image File history File links Cover art of New Orders album Waiting For The Sirens Call, released on March 27th 2005. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... New Order, 2005 Promotional shot New Order are an English electronic dance/indie rock crossover group, formed in 1980 by the surviving members of Joy Division following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. ... 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This album was the first (and so far, only) New Order album to have a title track. This matches their current trend of now using song titles which are in the song lyrics, a practice New Order rarely did before their 2001 album Get Ready. A title track is the name for a song which shares its name with the album its from. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the 2001 New Order album. ...

The band used promotional posters for the upcoming album utilising recently developed Hypertag technology to enable fans to download free content to their mobile phones, including ringtones, wallpapers or track previews, depending on the user's phone capability. This was one of the first implementations of such technology by the music industry. A ring tone is the sound made by a telephone when ringing. ... The terms wallpaper and desktop picture refer to an image used as a background on a computer screen, usually for the desktop of a graphical user interface. ...

The Japanese release of this album features extra tracks, including a version of the first single Krafty sung in Japanese. This was the first time that lead singer Bernard Sumner performed in a language other than English on record. The lyrics were written by Asian Kung-Fu Generation. Krafty was the first single released from New Orders 2005 album, Waiting for the Sirens Call. ... Bernard in 2005 Bernard Sumner (born January 4, 1956 in Manchester, England) was the guitarist and keyboardist for Joy Division. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Left to Right: KITA Kensuke, GOTOH Masafumi, YAMADA Takahiro, and IJICHI Kiyoshi. ...

The US release of this album features one extra track, a remix of Guilt Is A Useless Emotion, but not the additions of the Japanese version it is the 12th track.

Track listing

1. "Who's Joe?" (5:41)
2. "Hey Now What You Doing" (5:16)
3. "Waiting For The Sirens' Call" (5:42)
4. "Krafty" (4:35)
5. "I Told You So" (6:00)
6. "Morning Night And Day" (5:12)
7. "Dracula's Castle" (5:40)
8. "Jetstream" (5:23)
9. "Guilt Is A Useless Emotion" (5:39)
10. "Turn" (4:35)
11. "Working Overtime" (3:26)
12. "Krafty [Japanese Version]" (4:35) (Japan only bonus track)
13. "Krafty [The Glimmers Twelve Inch Extended]" (6:52) (Japan only bonus track)
14. "Krafty [Phones Reality Remix]" (7:05) (Japan only bonus track)
15. "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion [Mac Quayle Vocal Mix] (North American bonus track)

Krafty was the first single released from New Orders 2005 album, Waiting for the Sirens Call. ... Jetstream is a single by New Order. ...

Charts

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