Power Corruption and Lies: Classic Album #1

I've always been a huge New Order fan but mostly stuck to their Greatest Hits (why do they have 3 of these anyway?) until recently. I just can't get enough of their epic Power Corruption & Lies. It's fucking genius and deserves all the attention it received over the last 20 years and will receive for the next 20 years. Influential, stunning, direct and glorious.

For me, the highlight of the album lies within the first track, "Age Of Consent". A song that will surely fall within my top 20 greatest songs of all time. The urgency and vocal delivery in this song cannot be topped... the only thing that comes close are select tracks on The Bends. To this day it is being loved and covered, as proved by The Arcade Fire, here.

It's such an amazing feeling to re-discover a classic release and treat it as if its a newborn baby. Never was there such a case as PCL. It holds a dear place in my heart. It's my Shiloh Nouvel.