Welcome to Blind Spots, in which we force some of our favorite artists to finally check out the most famous albums they've never heard.

When New Order released their landmark sophomore album Power, Corruption, & Lies in 1983, the Manchester synth-pop band had already begun to find their footing. The four piece – which consisted of former Joy Division members Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, drummer Stephen Morris, as well as recent addition Gillian Gilbert – were three years removed from Ian Curtis’s suicide which marked the end of Joy Division. They regrouped as New Order, released their debut album Movement in 1981, an LP that split the difference between post-punk and the synth-minded direction they hinted at with “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” But it was a pair of danceable singles 1982’s “Temptation” and 1983’s “Blue Monday” that definitively showcased where New Order was going.

Though “Blue Monday” didn’t feature on the LP version of Power, Corruption, & Lies, the album set the band further along to becoming dance-rock icons. Opening with “Age of Consent” and its inescapably catchy bassline, the sophomore effort is arguably the band’s surest full-length statement. They’d go on to influence a wide-swath of artists like Moby, The Chemical Brothers, The Killers (who get their name from a New Order music video), LCD Soundsystem, and many more. Listening to Porches’ music, especially the last two LPs 2016’s Pool and 2018’s The House, it’s easy to imagine frontman Aaron Maine is a New Order lifer. But in reality, the New York City synth-pop artist has never heard them. Also surprising is the fact that his first choice was Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (which was Alex Lahey’s Blind Spot).

Because of this, Noisey asked the 29-year-old to spend part of his day off in Chicago at the city’s Shuga Records so he could hear New Order for the first time. “I’ve been hearing about New Order for years and I never got a chance to dive in,” Maine told me. “I know that Joy Division was first and then after that, I don’t know much. I think they’re fun Manchester and that people just adore them. I’ve probably heard a bunch of it already. I’m only really familiar with Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’” too,” he adds.

1. "Age of Consent"

Noisey: If you know “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” that’s the best example from Joy Division of the kind of stuff you’ll hear on this record. That song bridges the gap between Joy Division’s icy, post-punk and New Order’s synth-heavy dance-rock.

Aaron Maine: Gotcha. I definitely know this song.