Daily Jam - Your Silent Face

I really need to start wrapping presents today.  Here's some New Order.  Listen to "Your Silent Face," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - The Perfect Kiss

It's Sunday.  Gonna be a short one for me as i have to get back out on the road for work in a few hours.  Here's some New Order to while away the time to.  Listen to "The Perfect Kiss" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Regret

Typically when i listen to New Order, i stick with the band's seminal '80s output.  But i'm branching out into the '90s today with a track from the 1993 album "Republic."  Listen to "Regret" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Get the Message

Typically speaking, music supergroups are rarely worth the sum of their parts...and that's probably true of Electronic, the supergroup consisting of New Order's Bernard Sumner and The Smiths' Johnny Marr, but i like it anyway.  Here's a track from the 1991 self-titled debut.  Listen to "Get the Message" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Bizarre Love Triangle

As I get older, time seems to become more and more fluid, where something that happened ten years ago can feel like it was just a few months ago, where a whole series of endless moments and memories ebb and flow feeling simultaneously closer and farther away. The duration of time is not as long as it used to be. Five years doesn’t seem like it was that long ago anymore, whereas that same amount of days, weeks, months, and years felt like an enormous spread of existence when I was younger. Music is particularly affected by this. For example, Portishead’s Third came out in 2008, eight years ago*, but in the grand scheme of the way my mind works, it may as well have been released last year. It doesn’t feel like it was eight years ago at all. The duration of eight years is now insignificant. But, that’s the same number of years between when New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle” came out (on the 1986 album Brotherhood) and when I finally started rediscovering the band in the 9th grade (1994), and that felt like eons, like it was part of the long, long ago.

It only took a small amount of actual, countable time for the music from the 80’s to feel like it was from a long time ago, and a considerable longer amount for the music from the 90’s to feel the same way. Pretty much everything since could have come out yesterday as far as my brain and perception are concerned. What’s strange is that the stuff I jam to from the 80’s doesn’t feel as long ago as it did when I was a teenager, despite the longer time frame. It’s like I’m in some perpetual loop where sounds feel far away and then closer and then far away again and then closer again. My old jams almost feel fresher than a lot of the stuff they preceded. But then, “Bizarre Love Triangle” was always going to sound pretty damn cool.

Time is fluid. Time is moving. Time is not what it used to be. But good music is good music, regardless of when I hear it.

Listen below, our Daily Jam.

*Coincidentally enough, this column was originally posted eight years ago.

The Anchoress

UK artist The Anchoress has a new album of covers coming out in October, appropriately titled "Versions."  Check out her cool take on New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" below and pre-order the LP here from Drowned in Sound.

Daily Jam - Procession

We adopted a new dog over the weekend, and she has an unparalleled obsession with the squirrels in our yard.  She seems to viscerally hate that they're there.  And so, i sit here, trying to do some data entry work from home while she barks at them all from the front window.  Anyway, here's some New Order.  Listen to "Procession" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Thieves Like Us

It's always a good time for New Order.  So here's "Thieves Like Us," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Dreams Never End

The ice isn't going anywhere.  Tree branches are breaking and falling all over the neighborhood from the weight of it all.  It's only going to get colder.  And now there's snow in the forecast.  We're not used to this here in Central Texas.  Better listen to New Order i guess.  Here's "Dreams Never End," our Daily Jam.

Desire - Bizarre Love Triangle

Last May i got to see Chromatics when their tour swung through Austin, and opening act and fellow Italians Do It Better member Desire performed a wonderful cover of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle."  It's one of my all time favorite songs, so i was pretty stoked yesterday to see that the cover was released for download.  Listen below and get it here.

Daily Jam - Elegia

Penned in tribute to their former band mate and friend Ian Curtis, New Order's "Elegia" serves as kind of synth dirge, hearkening back to their Joy Division days.  It's sweet and sad and beautiful.  Check out the original album version below, our Daily Jam.

Cold Cave covers New Order

Hey everybody, Cold Cave covered New Order.  How had that not happened yet?  Listen to "Your Silent Face" below.