JOY DIVISION Unknown Pleasures ORIG UK LP 1979 1st press Textured NEW WAVE PUNK
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JOY DIVISION - Unknown Pleasures
ORIGINAL UK PRESSING ON THE UK ROUGH TRADE LABEL (FACT 10) FROM 1979.
MATRIX NUMBERS AND ETCHINGS:
Inside (White Side) FACT 10 INSIDE 1 A , A PORKY PRIME CUT, STEP, LYN-9435
Outside (Black Side) FACT 10 OUTSIDE 1 B, A PORKY PRIME CUT, THIS IS THE WAY, LYN-9436
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY TEXTURED BLACK SLEEVE WITH "Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd." IN THE BACK BOTTOM CORNER.
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL SQUARE CUT INNER SLEEVE WHICH IS CREAM IN COLOUR AND PRINTED ON MEDIUM WEIGHT LIGHTLY GLOSSY CARD.
Condition:
Textured sleeve: EX
Record: NM
It even looks like something classic, beyond its time or place of origin even as it was a clear product of both -- 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 were 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 despair. The quantum leap from the earliest singles to Unknown Pleasures can be heard through every note, with Martin Hannett's deservedly famous production -- emphasising space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub -- as much a hallmark as the music itself.
Songs fade in behind furtive noises of motion and activity, glass breaks with the force and clarity of doom, minimal keyboard lines add to an air of looming disaster -- something, somehow, seems to wait or lurk beyond the edge of hearing.
But even though this is Hannett's album as much as anyone's, the songs and performances are the true key. Bernard Sumner redefined heavy metal sludge as chilling feedback fear and explosive energy, Peter Hook's instantly recognisable bass work at once warm and forbidding, Stephen Morris' drumming smacking through the speakers above all else. Ian Curtis synthesizes and purifies every last impulse, his voice shot through with the desire first and foremost to connect, only connect -- as "Candidate" plaintively states, "I tried to get to you/You treat me like this." Pick any song: the nervous death dance of "She's Lost Control"; the harrowing call for release "New Dawn Fades," all four members in perfect sync; the romance in hell of "Shadowplay"; "Insight" and its nervous drive toward some sort of apocalypse.
All visceral, all emotional, all theatrical, all perfect -- one of the best albums ever.
Inside:
She’s Lost Control (3:40)
Shadowplay (3:50)
Wilderness (2:35)
Interzone (2:10)
I Remember Nothing (6:00)
Outside:
Disorder (3:36)
Day Of The Lords (4:43)
Candidate (3:00)
Insight (4:00)
New Dawn Fades (4:47)
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