If "Unknown Pleasures" was Joy Division at their most obsessively, carefully focused, ten songs yet of a piece, "Closer" was the sprawl, the chaotic explosion that went every direction at once. Who knows what the next path would have been had Curtis not chosen his end? But steer away from rereading of his every lyric after that date, and treat "Closer" as what everyone else thought it was at first --simply the next album -- and Joy Division's power just seems to have grown.

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VINYL FORMAT. 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 to create a dank, brooding atmosp   [ 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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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.

2xCD $23.99

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Rhino's new fourteen-track, single-disc anthology The Best of Joy Division collects cuts from their two landmark studio albums, Unknown Pleasures and Closer (#157 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time), as well as important singles from throughout the band's all too brief run.

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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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VINYL FORMAT. Discovered by friends of Martin Hannett recently and with input from one of his relatives, these recordings give a rare insight into his production ideas for Joy Division and his relationship with the band - the strange things / sound effects they recorded in the studio together, etc. The studio chit chat and interplay between Hannett, Gretton and Joy Division members is all here as Martin left his own tape machine running throughout studio sessions. Newly repressed in blue vinyl, Martin Ha   [ read more ]

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This 70-minute documentary covers the entire career of Joy Division, one of Manchester and Post-Punks most respected bands. It charts the entire short lifespan of the group, from their origins in their days as Warsaw to the more well known incarnation of Joy Division. Features include rare musical performances, obscure footage of rare interviews and rarely seen photographs. Plus review, comment, criticism and insight from; Mick Middles, co-author of Torn Apart: The Life Of Ian Curtis; former NME and Melody    [ read more ]

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With the exception of Joy Division's last single, Love Will Tear Us Apart, which faded out gradually into the anguished silence of singer Ian Curtis' suicide, none of the band's songs ever really ended; they either fell apart or collapsed, as if to bring about a proper end to something beyond their grasp. Joy Division couldn't stand still. After introducing the listener to a world of shadow, unspeakable beauty, hopeless vulnerability, terror, and love so pure it contains loss and death, not only   [ read more ]

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