New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies (LP)

Power, Corruption & Lies is the second studio album by the English rock band New Order, released on 2 May 1983 by Factory Records. The album features more electronic tracks than their 1981 debut Movement, with heavier use of synthesisers. The album was met with widespread acclaim, and has been included in music industry lists of the greatest albums of the 1980s and of all time.

The cover artwork was by Peter Saville, and in 2010 it was one of ten classic album covers from British artists commemorated on a UK postage stamp issued by the Royal Mail. A development of New Order's debut album Movement, the album combines the band's roots in post-punk with influences from electronic music. The track 5-8-6 has been called "a literal interpretation of early house music", while influences from Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder has also been noted.

Darker songs such as We All Stand are contrasted with brighter and more optimistic songs such as Age of Consent and Your Silent Face. The hit single Blue Monday was not included on the album but released separately on a twelve-inch single. Power, Corruption & Lies was praised critically on its release and is still well regarded. In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone magazine, Steve Pond felt that the band had finally separated themselves from their past Joy Division associations, calling the album a "remarkable declaration of independence" and a "quantum leap" over Movement.

Robert Christgau of The Village Voice found it "relatively gentle and melodic in its ambient postindustrial polyrhythms, their nicest record ever". The album placed at number 23 in The Village Voice's 1983 Pazz & Jop critics' poll. In a retrospective review, Josh Modell of The A.V. Club called Power, Corruption & Lies "the sound of a band coming out of the shadows, retaining some of the pop elements of older days, but also embracing happiness and a whole new world of sequencers". John Bush of AllMusic stated that the album "cemented New Order's place as the most exciting dance-rock hybrid in music".