A thread for Section 25's "Nature + Degree"

Here we were posting on the thread for the LAST album! Silly us! Why?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BenmQm5zL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

I listened to it a second time today and loved it a little more. What gets me is the really dancey tracks are spread out over the whole thing, so it's like you have one track with Beth singing where I want to get up and dance, and then it's the next track and I don't even think about dancing and then the next track "oh yeah! we're back to dancing again". And that whole see-saw goes on throughout the album. I love it! I was dancing on the bus and at the bus stop, btw.

Also a couple of other observations:

1)Garageland reminds me of early 90's Psychic TV.
2)I adore the strings on "Saddled With Something". To put that song on the same album with a bunch of dance music is fucking ace, in my opinion.
3) One Way Or Another is like the first stop on their end-of-album greatness apex tour on this record. Agenda is when it all climaxes.

And the Pop Idol beginning & end are just too much as well.

In short, this is one hell of an album. It's got the right ingredients, man. A little of this, a little of that.

O Bimble, why did you leave before I could realize how epically great this album is and try to elicit more gushing about it from you?

i'm happy to gush about it

it's basically my favourite S25 album. attachment and remembrance are A++++

the addition of beth was a genius idea

It'll be fun to see them in a month.

I can't believe I put off buying this because I was so-so about Part-primitiv. So stupid! They really brought it all together.

definitely. i like P-P a LOT but i think this album exceeds it in pretty much every respect (save for lyrically, perhaps)

mind you, beth intoning "i'll solve all your problems" on mirror is something very special indeed

squee!

LTM are delighted to present the seventh studio album from cult Factory Records group Section 25, titled Retrofit. Formed in Blackpool (UK) by brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, the band were initially mentored by Joy Division, and went on to record four albums with Factory Records. Now recognized as a leading genre band, three Section 25 tracks were included in the recent Warners box set Factory Records: Communications 1978-1992, with their third album From The Hip lauded as one of '1000 albums to hear before you die' by The Guardian newspaper.
After a decade apart, Section 25 released Part-Primitiv in 2007 and Nature + Degree in 2009. Retrofit was recorded before the untimely death of Larry Cassidy in February 2010, and sees the group revisit 10 key tracks from their estimable back catalogue, remade and remodelled using new technology, and closing with a compelling remix of Looking From A Hilltop by New Order member Stephen Morris. The album also includes an exclusive brand new track, Uberhymn.
DUE OUT: SEPTEMBER 13 2010.

01 The Process
02 Looking From A Hilltop
03 Beating Heart
04 Desert
05 Uberhymn
06 Garageland
07 Dirty Disco
08 Girl's Don't Count
09 New Horizon
10 Wretch
11 Another Hilltop (Stephen Morris Mix)

i guess it has the potential to be awful, but i'm going to reserve all judgement til i hear it

Wow this album was well worth the wait.