New Order will release a mini-album early next year which is to comprise tracks written during the 2005 ‘Waiting For The Sirens Call‘ sessions.
“Lost Sirens? Well, it’s not really lost,” drummer Stephen Morris remarks in a statement. “I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden, so that one day someone would dig it up, like a time capsule. We just stuck our record in a cupboard. And now we’ve got it out.”
‘The Lost Sirens‘ is due for release on January 14th 2013, and has been written, produced and recorded by Morris along with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Philip Cunningham.
“When we did the first one we had 20 ideas for songs – we were going through a particularly prolific phase – but we couldn’t make a double concept album out of them all, so we thought we’d just do two instead,” Morris continues.
“The intention was always to write four or five more songs and then put it out 18 months or so after the first one. When we unearthed it from the cupboard recently, with the intention of re-editing some of the songs, we all agreed they didn’t actually need it, and it should just be out there. So here it is.”
‘The Lost Sirens’ tracklist:
‘I’ll Stay With You’
‘Sugarcane’
‘Recoil’
‘Californian Grass’
‘Hellbent’
‘Shake It Up’
‘I’ve Got a Feeling’
‘I Told You So’