"
Crystal" is a song by the English
rock band
New Order. It was released in August 2001 as the first single from their seventh album
Get Ready. The song entered the UK charts at number 8, attracting considerable attention and praise as the band's comeback single, their first since 1993: on release Joe Tangari of
Pitchfork Media called the song as "possibly one of New Order's best singles".
Drowned in Sound rated it a 9/10 and described it as "fantastic" and the "confident, strutting return of a band that knows that the music industry has missed it." It is one of the band's fastest and most guitar-orientated singles. The song is notable for a remix contest in which there were thousands of entries around the world. It appears as the first track on the album in a slightly different version, with extended outro and intro.