Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Unknown Pleasures even looks like something classic, beyond its time or place of origin, even as it was a clear product of both. The cover features one of Peter Saville's earliest and best designs, a transcription of a signal showing a star going nova, on a black embossed sleeve. If that was all "Unknown Pleasures" was, it wouldn't be discussed so much, but the ten songs inside, quite simply, are stone-cold landmarks; the whole album a monument to passion, energy, an   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England. 180 gram vinyl. Hailing from Manchester, England, Joy Division profoundly affected the alternative music scene. Arriving as punk music was waning, Joy Division's music inhabits an eerie, twilight world. Decay and alienation envelop singer Ian Curtis, whose cavernous, but dispassionate, voice belied the intensity he brought to bear. Rolling drum patterns, thudding bass lines and uncluttered synthesizer combine   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The news of singer Ian Curtis's suicide still hung in the air when this album was released. Given the deep introspective nature of Joy Division's music, his death invested Closer with an even greater pessimism. Yet there is a fragile beauty in its content and if Curtis's voice seems more distant, it complements the sparse textures created by mesmerizing synthesizer lines and occasional, highly effective, piano. Slow, hypnotic tempos increase the sense of brooding mystery and if the few    [ read more ]

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LIMITED EDITION! 2xLP VINYL FORMAT.Available on 180-gram vinyl for the first time in over ten years, this special deluxe edition of Still is fully re-mastered from the original master tapes and features brand new artwork. Twenty classic songs from a classic band.

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VINYL FORMAT. Fantastically packaged 180 gram reissue of eight classic Joy Division tracks from the legendary John Peel program. Cuts are "Exercise One," "Insight," "She's Lost Control," "Transmission," "Love Will Tear Us Apart," "24 Hours," "Colony" and "Sound of Music." Raw, stripped down and eerier that usual!

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VINYL FORMAT. Tracks: Atmosphere b|w Decades. This Atmosphere - Decades 7" is white marble wax with a tri-fold out poster containing a rare Ian Curtis photo as seen on the 1988 Anton Corbjn video of "Atmosphere". The poster is printed on linen cloth paper, and b-side "Decades" is a six minute version! Beautiful art prefectly replicated.

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Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Rhino marks the 30th anniversary of Joy Division with a 2xCD Collector's Edition of Unknown Pleasures. In this edition, Disc one features the entire album remastered, and Disc two features for the first time on CD Live At The Factory, Manchester which was recorded July 13, 1979.

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VINYL FORMAT. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" b/w "These Days" and "Atmosphere."

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Rhino marks the 30th anniversary of Joy Division with a 2xCD Collector's Edition of Closer. In this edition, Disc one features the entire album remastered, and Disc two features for the first time on CD Live At University Of London Union which was recorded February 8, 1980. WOW!

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