Lost Sirens

New Order

Lost Sirens

Eight unreleased tracks left over from the veteran electronic pop band's recording sessions for 2005's Waiting for the Sirens' Call, and the last of their music to feature Peter Hook

ADM rating[?]

6.0

Label
Rhino / Warners
UK Release date
14/01/2013
US Release date
22/01/2013
  1. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Further proof of New Order’s almost unique ability to seamlessly segue electronic music into pop and vice versa
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  2. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Long-standing fans are sure to rejoice in this welcome blast from the past
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  3. 7.0 |   All Music

    Compared to that album's half-hearted songwriting and rote sound, Lost Sirens positively shines -- leading to the customary questions of why this material didn't replace several, if not many, songs on the original Sirens' Call
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  4. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Sumner's six-string chime and plangently defiant vocals make this accidental swan song feel industrial-grade wistful
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  5. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    At the end of the day, Lost Sirens is what it is – a series of offcuts. But still, it is a New Order album; and as such, maintains a degree of quality
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  6. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Lost Sirens serves as proof that, “bad time” or not, they really need to give it another shot
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  7. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    As an album, Lost Sirens isn't at all an embarrassment: it's a document of a band whose range and reach, rather than power, are what has been diminished
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  8. 6.0 |   NME

    Completists can tick a box
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  9. 6.0 |   State

    From a band worthy of scraping skies, one can’t help but feel underwhelmed
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  10. 6.0 |   God Is In The TV

    It’s not perfect, but this mini album is definitely worthy of a release
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  11. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Features the unchallenging semi-electronic pop-rock you'd expect from late-period New Order
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  12. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Actually bests its parent album, which was not New Order's finest hour
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  13. 5.0 |   Under The Radar

    Not many people were waiting with baited breath for an outtakes album from an apparently dreary and unimaginative recording period
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  14. 5.0 |   A.V. Club

    It still sounds like New Order, a band that put out some incredible records in the last 30 years, but that stopped growing and changing in half that time. Treading water keeps you afloat, sure, but it rarely gets you anywhere interesting
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  15. 5.0 |   The Quietus

    Lost Sirens is effectively an exercise in feeding the completists
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  16. 4.0 |   No Ripcord

    Anyone expecting some sort of lost treasure in this collection will be let down
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  17. 4.0 |   The AU Review

    These ‘lost’ tracks were locked away for almost a decade, and were strangely revived at a time when the band isn’t at full force
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