NEW ORDER - DREAMS NEVER END, Factory Records 1981

Movement is New Order’s debut album, an essential artifact in the band’s evolution and the last recording under the production of Martin Hannet. The opener “Dreams Never End” is the most optimistic track among an album full of wonderfully chilling synth overtones, yet one of only a few recordings sung by bassist Peter Hook, delivered with uncanny resemblance to Ian Curtis, something the band was decidedly trying to move away from. Equally intriguing is the boldly austere cover art designed by Peter Saville, not just for the subtle depiction of the letters ‘F’ for Factory Records and ‘L’ as in the roman numeral 50 (also it’s catalog number), but rather for its quite fitting and unapologetic appropriation of this Futurist poster created by Fortunato Depero in 1932.