CD: LTMCD 2336
RELEASE DATE: 2002
LABEL: LTM

01. O Pamela
02. Send Them Away
03. Sail Through
04. Melancholy Man
05. World Of Her Own
06. Torn Calendar
07. All I Asked You To Do
08. Here Comes Everybody
09. Talk About The Past (12")
10. Of The Matter
11. Gruesome Castle
12. Pale Spectre
13. Furious Sea
14. Plastic Flowers
15. Everybody Works So Hard (12")

The band's second album originally released by Factory in November 1985, plus all tracks from the three related non-album singles for Factory. 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. 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. The drums and bass are equally low-key, finally allowing the band to once and for all escape the Joy Division-wannabe tag that had plagued them ever since their first single, "On Our Honeymoon." Dark-hued but not gloomy, the songs on Here Comes Everybody are musically varied enough to keep from sounding too samey. This album is a brooding meditation on lost love with a tightly wound, contents-under-pressure edge that threatens to explode but never quite does. It's a most impressive end to a surprisingly excellent album.