Disappointed: Electronic, Marr & Sumner: a third way between guitars and club culture

By sORRYbOY

Two men reach the end of the 1980s carrying something heavier than failure: success. Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr know the drag of legend-and they understand that, to stay alive, they need to build a new room. They call it Electronic: an anti-band, an escape hatch, a laboratory where the studio becomes an instrument and a song is not born "finished," but assembled like architecture.

These pages tell the story of that room: the meeting and the wit, the "supergroup" myth stubbornly refused, the rare balance between dancefloor discipline and guitar intelligence-between melody and machine-driven momentum. From singles that arrive already iconic to sharper, stranger turns, right up to the final question: what was Electronic, really?

Not a footnote between The Smiths and New Order, but a long, close, intensely focused collaboration-one that left a door open between worlds that were never truly separate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPQ3X7MQ
• ISBN13: 9798249411381
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"