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.