Electronic is a duo consisting of New Order vocalist Bernard Sumner and former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. They released their first single (Getting Away With It) in 1989, which also featured Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant. Electronic has made two CDs so far: Electronic (1991) and Raise The Pressure ('96). The third is called Twisted Tenderness. Don't expect any Smiths-like strumming from Marr.
His heavy guitar playing and the performed dance beats by programmer Merv de Peyer give the typical Sumner melodies, which we know from New Order, a pleasant edge. Besides the production it is mainly the songs that make Twisted Tenderness one of the better CDs of 1999. Listen especially to (the choruses of) Make It Happen (New Order meets The Prodigy), Haze and Late At Night. (WvdZ)more
