New Order continued to surprise with “Love Vigilantes,” from Low-life (1985). Devastated by the suicide of their lead singer and songwriter, Ian Curtis, the three remaining members of Joy Division — Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Morris — added keyboardist Gillian Gilbert and renamed the band. After a debut LP that did not do much to establish the new group as a wholly separate project, they released Power, Corruption & Lies in 1983, a powerful statement of purpose with a new sound that married the poetic and introspective brand of punk rock of the old group with the new accent on melodicism, focused musicianship, and experimental fusions of dance and modern rock music. And just as that album began with an insistent pop song with a twangy guitar lick, an artistic leap from the dark oeuvre of Joy Division, two years later their next LP, Low-life, launched itself with a distinctly twangy sound — gleaned from American country and folk music — on the leadoff track “Love Vigilantes.”
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