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JOY DIVISION

Formed in the wake of the punk explosion in England, Joy Division became the first band in the post-punk movement by later  emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression, pointing ahead to the rise of melancholy alternative music  in the '80s. Though the group's raw initial sides fit the bill for any punk band, Joy Division later incorporated synthesizers  (taboo in the low-tech world of '70s punk) and more haunting melodies, emphasized by the isolated, tortured lyrics of its  lead vocalist, Ian Curtis. While the British punk movement shocked the world during the late '70s, Joy Division's quiet storm  of musical restraint and emotive power proved to be just as important to independent music in the 1980s. "CLOSER" tracklisting Side A: ATROCITY EXHIBITION - ISOLATION - PASSOVER - COLONY - A MEANS TO AN END Side B: HEART AND SOUL - TEWNTY FOUR HOURS - THE ETERNAL - DECADES 1980     LP    FACTORY RECORDS    FACT∙XXV  MADE IN ITALY    ORIGINAL COPY UNLAMINATED SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE THIS VERSION: Black labels without tracklist Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: none LABEL: FACTORY - BLACK LABEL - SILVER TEXT Label Code: none Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) FACT∙XXV Catalog on labels: FACT.25 Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): FACT XXV/A Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): FACT XXV/B On labels: rim text reads "A Factory Record ∙ All Rights.........Reserved ∙ A Fractured Music" 9/5/80        STEREO 33 Produced by Martin Hannett Published by Fractured Music MADE ITALY - 1980 Rights Society: SIAE (stamped on Side A) On Inner Sleeve: Produced by...........at Brittania Row.... ....Printed by Garrod And Lofthouse Limited On Back Cover: FACT XXV A Factory Records Product Prodotto: Base Records Via Castiglione 109 Bologna tel 051/237528 grading RECORD EX but (please, read above description)  SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description) 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 Ian Curtis not chosen his end? But steer away from the rereading of his every lyric after that date; 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. Martin Hannett was still producing, but seems to have taken as many chances as the band itself throughout -- differing mixes, differing atmospheres, new twists and turns define the entirety of Closer, songs suddenly returned in chopped-up, crumpled form, ending on hiss and random notes. Opener "Atrocity Exhibition" was arguably the most fractured thing the band had yet recorded.....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...(AllMusic)