Waiting for the Sirens' Call explained

Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Type:	studio
Artist:	New Order
Cover:	New Order - Waiting for the Sirens Call.png
Border:	yes
Alt:	An orange "No" on a plain white background
Recorded:	2003–2004
Studio:	Real World (Box, England) St Catherine's Court (Bath, England)
Genre:	Alternative rock^[1] ^[2] synth-pop
Length:	57:07
Label:	London, Warner Bros.
Producer:	New Order John Leckie Stephen Street Stuart Price
Prev Title:	Get Ready
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	Lost Sirens
Next Year:	2013

Waiting for the Sirens' Call is the eighth studio album by English rock band New Order. The album was preceded by the single "Krafty". Two additional singles from the album were released: "Jetstream", which features vocals by Ana Matronic from Scissor Sisters, and the album's title track.

Reception

According to Metacritic, the album received generally favourable reviews.

Track listing

US edition bonus track

"Guilt Is a Useless Emotion" (Mac Quayle Vocal Mix) – 6:29

Japanese edition bonus tracks

"Krafty" (Japanese Version) – 4:33
"Krafty" (The Glimmers Twelve Inch Extended) – 6:55
"Krafty" (Phones Reality Remix) – 7:07

Personnel

New Order

Musician credits for New Order are not listed in the liner notes of the album's personnel. Below are the instruments that the group typically plays.

Bernard Sumner – vocals, guitars, synthesisers and programming
Peter Hook – 4 and 6-stringed bass
Stephen Morris – drums, synthesisers and programming
Phil Cunningham – guitars, synthesisers and programming

Production

The original liner notes list the album's personnel as follows:

New Order – producer, writer
Jim Spencer – producer (1, 3, 5)
Stephen Street – producer (2, 6, 10, 11), mixing (2, 6, 10, 11)
Cenzo Townshend – mixing (2, 6, 10, 11), engineer (2, 6, 10, 11)
Rich Costey – mixing (4)
Dawn Zee – additional vocals (5, 9)
John Leckie – producer (7), mixing (7)
Stuart Price – producer (8, 9), writer (8)

Ana Matronic – featuring (vocals) (8), writer (8)
Beatrice Hatherley – additional vocals (9)
Mac Quayle – keyboards, additional programming
Bruno Ellingham – additional engineering
Tom Stanley, Paul Grady, Claire Lewis, Marco Migliari, Rob Haggett, Phil Rose and Owen Skinner – assistant engineer
Peter Saville – art direction, photography
Anna Blessman – photography
Howard Wakefield and Peter Saville Associates – design

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for *Waiting for the Sirens' Call*
Chart (2005)	Peak position
Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[3]	29
European Albums (Billboard)^[4]	6
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[5]	21

Year-end charts

Notes and References

Web site: New Order Announce Their First New Album in a Decade . . 22 June 2015 . 12 August 2015 . Kissel . Chris.
Inside New Order's Triumphant Return to Dance-Rock . . 23 September 2015 . 27 September 2015 . Grow . Kory.
Web site: Top of the Charts: Il Divo Don't Answer to the Boss . . 5 May 2005 . 12 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060504012053/http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2005/05/0511.cfm . 4 May 2006 . usurped.
Hits of the World . Billboard . 117 . 16 . 16 April 2005 . 53 . 0006-2510 .
Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/120086/ . ja:ニュー・オーダー . ja . . 27 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121108062052/http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/120086/ . 8 November 2012 . dead.
Web site: 2005 Year End Charts – Top Electronic Albums . Billboard . 26 November 2005 . 26 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121008124504/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2005/elptitl.jsp . 8 October 2012 . dead.