Latest album from New Order worth the wait

New Order recently released their first studio album in 10 years, but they haven’t been lazy, just getting the balance right, Bernard Summer tells Andy Welch.

Bernard Sumner is feeling great — not that he’s entirely comfortable with that. “I’m suspiciously all right,” he explains. “If nothing’s gone wrong, I get suspicious.”

It’s little wonder he’s feeling so good, however. The band he formed with Gillian Gilbert and former Joy Division bandmates Peter Hook and Stephen Morris in 1980 have just released one of their very best albums.