Power, Corruption and Lies

Released on 2 May 1983 through Factory Records, Power, Corruption and Lies was New Order's second studio album, recorded at Britannia Row Studios in London with the band producing themselves^[6]. Where their 1981 debut Movement still carried the shadow of Joy Division, this record marked the band's decisive turn toward synthesizers and dance rhythms, folding their post-punk foundation into the electronic textures they had absorbed from New York's club scene^[5][6].

The album's cover, designed by Peter Saville around Henri Fantin-Latour's still life A Basket of Roses, was intended to suggest how beauty can be a vehicle for the title's darker forces to enter everyday life^[6]. Critics received it as a major leap forward on release, and it has since been ranked among the greatest albums of its decade, with its cover art eventually entering the collection of the Museum of Modern Art^[6][7].