Creativity Quote by Peter Hook

Peter Hook’s line lands like a casually tossed gauntlet, the kind musicians throw when they’re tired of being treated as a nostalgia act. “Seven songs finished” is a status update, sure, but the phrasing is strategic: finished means real, banked, undeniable. He’s not teasing demos or vibes; he’s signaling productivity and leverage, the two things veteran bands are assumed to have misplaced somewhere between reissues and anniversary tours.

The dagger is “on par with any that are on Siren’s.” That’s not just confidence; it’s a preemptive defense against the most common dismissals of late-career work: that it’s either a pale echo of the classic era or an awkward attempt to chase new trends. Hook doesn’t claim the new material is better or revolutionary. He chooses “on par,” a competitive, almost bureaucratic standard that implies fairness. Judge it like you’d judge the record you already accept. That’s the subtext: stop grading us on sentimentality.

Context matters because Hook’s career has been defined as much by legacy management as by songwriting - the post-Joy Division / New Order ecosystem where authorship, rights, and credibility get litigated in public. Mentioning Siren’s (presumably a recognized benchmark in his catalog) is a way to anchor the future to an existing identity without begging for approval. It’s a musician insisting his present tense deserves the same seriousness as his past.