It’s a new New Order song, “Restless” – the first single off their forthcoming album, Music Complete – and the fabulous, must-see music video features King Arthur as a hot, shirtless twink at a wild, homoerotic bacchanalia. Says Pitchfork: “Directed and produced by NYSU, the clip recalls the tale of King Arthur by way of Party Monster, with swords and stones giving way to sex, glitter, dancing, and violence.” YES! Watch it below.
The song harkens back to their earlier dance roots, like 1989’s Technique. Bernard Sumner, New Order’s famously private lead singer, recently told Out magazine:
“By the late ’90s I was going to clubs and partying like crazy. I’d eaten too much dance music. And dance music also became very compartmentalized in the ’90s. I didn’t like that because it meant rules, which meant fools taking away my ability to do what I wanted to do. There was also pressure because we’d made ‘Blue Monday, which was massive, and I felt every record after that had to reinvent the wheel, which is impossible. I just needed a break from it all. But now the time felt right to return to synthesizers and beats and electronic music.”
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