best last song on a new order album

'Dream Attack', of course.

Technique, the Electronic album and Republic being his vocal and lyrical peak

Yeah, I'll agree with this. Even though I don't rate Republic highly outside of a couple of songs, his voice is great on it.

What was the turning point for Sumner's voice going from being the reason why autotune was invented to being relatively smooth and pleasant to listen to? 'True Faith'?

if comps had been allowed then my answer would have been "spooky (magimix)", however within the parameters defined, I totally agree re the outcome of this poll.

"True Faith"

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I looked at the thread title and thought "how could it be anything other than 'Dream Attack?'"

Then I remember I've never actually heard PC&L and "Age of Consent" is the only song I know from it

Just one of those blind spots I need to fix one of these days

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during the 'True Faith' sessions just to see what Stephen Hague did and how he did it, as apparently - and I can truly beliebe this - he was a bit of a hard taskmaster in the studio. Erasure reportedly didn't enjoy working with him on The Innocents, Andy McCluskey has implied pretty much the same thing from when he worked with OMD. Then there was the time he worked R.E.M. into the ground trying to record 'Catapult' before they got rid of him.