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Rather than them opting for redundancy, the second album from Monaco--the pet project of New Order's groin-stretching, upper-registry bass plucker Peter Hook--arrives at a time when the parent group emerges from cold-storage to add a little coda to their legend. Still, two New Orders are clearly better than none. And so it is time, once more, for geneticists and sociologists to deliberate on whether the doppelganger Bernard Sumner-isms of singer David Potts (who nearly debunked to Oasis in 1999) are the results of nature or nurture. After all, "I've Got A Feeling" and "Black Rain" effortlessly succeed in retr
Rather than them opting for redundancy, the second album from Monaco--the pet project of New Order's groin-stretching, upper-registry bass plucker Peter Hook--arrives at a time when the parent group emerges from cold-storage to add a little coda to their legend. Still, two New Orders are clearly better than none. And so it is time, once more, for geneticists and sociologists to deliberate on whether the doppelganger Bernard Sumner-isms of singer David Potts (who nearly debunked to Oasis in 1999) are the results of nature or nurture. After all, "I've Got A Feeling" and "Black Rain" effortlessly succeed in retracing, in voice and spirit, the brightly-strummed guitar-pop frisk of New Order's "Way Of Life" and "Dream Attack", whilst Hook's treble-top bass buzzes around in the background like an irate hornet looking for a scrap. Fine stuff, though oddly, given their name, the only thing remotely Mediterranean about this record is the dated "do it on the dance floor, every woman and man" club-thing of "See-Saw". --Kevin Maidment
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Manufacturer: Papillon
Release date: 20 August 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5050003000526 UPC: 5050003000526
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