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, and cathartic d...   [ 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 to cr...   [ 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 faster...   [ read more ]

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