International

Performer: New Order (UK)
Engineer: Michael "Mike Dee" Johnson; Bruno Ellingham; Andrew Robinson; Adrian Bushby; Steve Dub
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Initial pressings included a bonus DVD. New Order: Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Peter Hook, Ian Curtis. Additional personnel includes: Pete Davis (programming); Dawn Zee (background vocals). Producers include: Martin Hannett, New Order, John Robie, The Chemical Brothers, Steve Osborne. Recorded between 1981 & 2002. Includes liner notes by David Blot. Personnel: Pete Davis (programming); Dawn Zee (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Adrian Bushby; Alan Meyerson; Mark "Spike" Stent; Steve Osborne. Audio Remixer: Shep Pettibone. Any band that's released nearly as many compilations as studio albums in the past 15 years certainly doesn't need another one, but International appeared anyway, and though it's slightly better than The Best of New Order, it's not nearly as solid as Substance. Beginning with New Order's recorded debut, 1981's "Ceremony," the collection proceeds immediately to the group's worldwide breakout with 1983's "Blue Monday," then slots mid-'80s classics "Confusion," "The Perfect Kiss," and "Bizarre Love Triangle." It certainly didn't need three tracks from 2001's Get Ready. Most of the tracks are album versions, though the compilers made wise choices on remixes of "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "Touched by the Hand of God." As befits a middling compilation from an excellent band, International is a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. ~ John Bush

Born in the early 1980s out of the ashes of U.K. post-punk pioneers Joy Division, New Order became one of the first electro-pop bands to find mainstream success in the US. Their single "Blue Monday" was a landmark in dance music, and subsequent recordings achieved a perfect balance between technology and pop songcraft. They were a standard choice of club DJs through the '80s & '90s and even snuck onto the pop charts occasionally with catchy hits like "True Faith" and "Regret." Leader Bernard Sumner sporadically records with Johnny Marr as Electronic, and occasionally reconvenes the famed quartet.

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