ALBUMS REVIEWS / POP

** 1/2 Electronic, “Raise the Pressure,” Warner Bros. The second teaming of ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and New Order singer Bernard Sumner five years after a promising debut sounds more like two solo projects, half post-Smiths strumminess and half New Order electro-dance. There are prime examples of each. Still, the separate approaches seem less striking than the sum of the parts could be.

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