Complete Music

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Complete Music
Same artwork as the original album, but with colour schemes of purple, orange, pink, yellow, light blue, and light green covering every space in between lines.
Remix album by
Released13 May 2016 (2016-05-13)
Length87:46
LabelMute
New Order chronology
Music Complete
(2015)
Complete Music
(2016)

Complete Music is a remix album by English rock band New Order, released on 13 May 2016[1][2] by Mute Records. It is an alternative version of the band's tenth studio album, Music Complete (2015), featuring extended versions of all 11 tracks from the original album.

Background[edit]

The cover features the same geometric design as Music Complete, with a modified colour palette. Two new exclusive mixes of "Nothing but a Fool" and "Superheated" are included, which are different from those on the eight-LP vinyl box set of Music Complete.

Of the release, Bernard Sumner explained:

"We've given [the music] to different mixers, and they've chopped it up and rearranged it and stripped it back, so it's like another take on the original album [...] Some of [the songs] are radically different, but rather than like a remixer who would write a new set of music, they used the music that we'd already incorporated in the songs, but warped it in a way that was very interesting."[3]

Track listing[edit]

No.TitleLength
1."Restless" (Extended Mix)9:29
2."Singularity" (Extended Mix)7:33
3."Plastic" (Extended Mix)9:06
4."Tutti Frutti" (Extended Mix)8:05
5."People on the High Line" (Extended Mix)7:51
6."Stray Dog" (Extended Mix)6:31
7."Academic" (Extended Mix)8:56
8."Nothing but a Fool" (Extended Mix 2)9:09
9."Unlearn This Hatred" (Extended Mix)5:25
10."The Game" (Extended Mix)7:24
11."Superheated" (Extended Mix 2)7:07
Total length:87:46

Charts[edit]

Weekly chart performance for Complete Music
Chart (2016) Peak
position
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[4] 35
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[5] 6

References[edit]

  1. ^ Legaspi, Althea (30 March 2016). "New Order Unveil 'Complete Music' Extended Album". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  2. ^ "New Order – Complete Music: The new extended mix edition of Music Complete". neworder.com. 30 March 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  3. ^ Doherty, Mike (23 March 2016). "New Order's next album is coming: Bernard Sumner talks "Complete Music," Peter Hook and why it's important to "glow for a very long time"". Salon. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  4. ^ "New Order Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  5. ^ "New Order Chart History (Top Dance/Electronic Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 12 July 2020.