Title: Holds up mostly well, but shows age in places
Product review: Right about the time New Order was learning how to play chords, this Glaswegian band (and Factory labelmates) took the layered-synth sound and made it their trademark, soaring above melancholy guitar and vocal work.Now, more than 15 years later, most of the songs are still as beautiful and haunting -- but some of the simpler ones are showing their age as relics of the 1980s.If you're curious about The Wake, this is the one disc of theirs to buy. Most likely the music will mean more if you heard it Way Back When.Pluses: The eight non-LP singles are tough to find elsewhere and add up to a reasonable CD's worth of music on this otherwise short album.Minuses: Liner notes say that the master tapes were lost and the CD is mastered "from vinyl" with extra postprocessing. I didn't hear anything noticeably bad, though.
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