经过一再跳票之后，这张唱片终于在2013年年初发行。专辑中大部分的曲目都是乐队在录制2005年的专辑《Waiting For The Sirens Call》时创作但未发行的曲目。其中也包括《Waiting For The Sirens Call》中&I Told You So&的混音版，以及收录在2011年精选集《Total: From Joy Division to New Order》中 的&Hellbent&的加长版。 　　■ by 海德@破报 　　三年前开始有谣言传出当时就已经名存实亡的New Order，将会推出《Waiting For The Sirens' Call》时期未收录的歌曲选辑，配合当时Bernard Sumner和Peter Hook进行得如火如荼的阿伯乡土剧式吵架，于是乐迷均把这张《Lost Sirens》当成是该团最后一张专辑，甚至是堪称「遗作」。但拖拖拉拉时至今日才发行的此作，配合上四缺一少掉Hoook的New Order开始巡回演出，甚至不排除创作新专辑，逐渐变调成某种先行试金石，或是丑恶的商业和意气之争，撇开这些风风雨雨不谈，本来此作就是两种不期不待的组合，首先同时期未收录曲的合辑水准向来不会太高，再者好死不死上一张专辑算是乐团诸作的低点，但令人意外的是，它们居然听起来不糟。 　　只有八曲的迷你专辑在许多细节方面一听就知道是尚未凋琢完毕的作品，但不得不承认当中确实有些令人惊艳的好歌，整体架构依然走在Barny与Hooky和其快乐伙伴的摇滚计划上，傻气到有点让人沮丧的Perfect-Pop感染了西岸的加州风情，特别是电音节奏明显地与时代格格不入，即便如此，一些歌曲像如＜I’ll Stay With You＞仍具备扎实且悦耳的组织，那些因为风格诲暗而未蒙收录的歌曲，反而提供不同的深度，特别一曲完全VU化的＜I Told You So＞更是展现大团的恢弘气魄。 　　若要说《Lost Sirens》是原班人马四人组的最后作品却也不妥（缺少键盘/吉他手Gillian Gilbert），应该是称作Sumner/Hook的时代终结，视为遗珠将会颇为惊艳，但作为正式专辑却未达NO的低标。 　　New Order have revealed plans to release out-takes from their final album, Waiting for the Sirens' Call. Due in December, the Lost Sirens EP will comprise eight tracks that didn't quite make it on to the band's 2005 LP and, former bassist Peter Hook said, &draw [a] line& under his split with the band. 　　Although New Order have yet to formally announce the release, Lost Sirens is appearing at online retail sites, Slicing Up Eyeballs reported on Wednesday. &Cutting a new piece of vinyl for New Order,& tweeted Frank Arkwright, a mastering engineer at Abbey Road. According to those listings, the EP includes seven unreleased tracks, including Sugarcane, Stay With You and Californian Grass (Doomy), as well as Hellbent, which was included on Total, a New Order-Joy Division compilation issued in June. 　　Hook appears to be behind the release. After being left out of New Order's recent reunion, he expressed the desire to &get rid of [the unreleased] tracks in the nicest way possible&. &It would be nice, from my point of view, to … at last draw the line under the New Order split-up in 2006,& he told Slicing Up Eyeballs. &It hasn't felt clean in any way, to be honest.& In an apparent clash with former bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris, Hook argued for the tracks to be released as a standalone album, not as part of a Waiting for the Sirens' Call reissue. &I keep telling them it will do them no good, because once one person has it, it will be up on the internet and nobody will have to buy it,& Hook said. 　　The reunited New Order are scheduled to play four concerts next month, including their first UK gig in five years, in London on 10 December. But don't expect Hook to join them. &Too many things have been said and done,& Sumner said this summer. The bassist, who has recently performed Joy Division material, doesn't seem to mind. &What I want to see is a clean slate for New Order,& he told Exclaim last month. &I want to be able to look at New Order and go: 'Well, it's all finished,' and then we can all get on with our lives.&