Get Ready

Get Ready is the seventh studio album by New Order. Recorded between 2000 and 2001 and released in August 2001 by record label London, the album was the group's first album in eight years, following 1993's Republic.

This was the last New Order album featuring the classic lineup.

The band opened Get Ready with a statement of purpose, a trailer single ("Crystal") featuring a host of longtime New Order staples: a sublime melody, an inscrutable set of lyrics, a deft, ragged guitar line kicking in for the chorus, and Peter Hook's yearning bass guitar taking a near-solo role.

Though there are several allowances for the electronic-dance form New Order helped develop, Get Ready is a very straight-ahead album, their first work in 15 years that's focused on songwriting and performance rather than grafted dance techniques.