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100
Joy Division were at the height of their powers on Closer, equaling and arguably bettering the astonishing Unknown Pleasures, that's how accomplished the four members were. Rock, however defined, rarely seems and sounds so important, so vital, and so impossible to resist or ignore as here.
100
Closer is even more austere, more claustrophobic, more inventive, more beautiful, and more haunting than its predecessor. It's also Joy Division's start-to-finish masterpiece, a flawless encapsulation of everything the group sought to achieve.
100
Closer is the album that would come to define Joy Division in all their suicidal glory. Their previous effort, Unknown Pleasures is argued to be the better album of the two Joy Division put out, but honestly who cares?
80
The music of Joy Division — an art-minded English postpunk band that initially struck reviewers as a tuneful version of PiL — sets forth an even more indelible vision of gloom. In fact, it's a vision so steeped in deathly fixations that it proved fatal.
i found this album to be much better than joy division's debut. when listening i was put in a trance-like state. there was nothing else i could focus on. each track had energy and was engaging, i could feel what joy division was trying to put across. the hooks and lyrics of each song were improved from the last LP, and they matched the equally improved instrumentals. a masterpiece that is made only once in a lifetime.
fav tracks: isolation, the eternal
fav tracks: isolation, the eternal
After the tremendous success achieved on Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division released an even more authentic, ambitious, claustrophobic and powerful album, months after Ian Curtis´s suicide. Although it seemed impossible for a band, no matter how creative and prolific, to follow up an album like their debut with another work nearly as strong, it seems that Curtis and his peers managed to find even larger inspiration for putting out an album like Closer, that feels so much more theatrical, ... read more
MISC LISTS
| #7 | / | Slant Magazine (1980s) |
| #10 | / | Pitchfork (1980s) |
| #12 | / | Pitchfork (1980s v2) |
| #13 | / | Paste (Post-Punk) |
| #16 | / | NME Top 500 of All Time |
| #31 | / | Paste (1980s) |
| #56 | / | Rolling Stone (1980s) |
| #157 | / | Rolling Stone (All Time) |
Track List
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Isolation
- Passover
- Colony
- A Means To An End
- Heart And Soul
- Twenty Four Hours
- The Eternal
- Decades
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![Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures [Collector's Edition]](https://cdn.albumoftheyear.org/album/thumbs/60421-unknown-pleasures.jpg)
Added on: September 24, 2012
