This week I’m featuring 80’s deep cuts on Mental Jukebox. They’re the non-charting singles. The forgotten b-sides. The unheralded album staples. While they may not be the first songs that come to mind when you think of the 80’s, they’re some of the most important musical statements of the decade.

Listen past the dance anthems and Joy Division carryovers and you’ll soon realize New Order has a more impressive catalog than they get credit for. “Your Silent Face” is one such example. Hailing from one of the most influential post punk albums of the decade, it was living proof that New Order had discovered its own synth-driven world apart from its Joy Division roots. A world that was somehow both shimmering and somber at the same time.

“Rise and fall of shame. A search that shall remain.”