Joy Division -Closer - UK LP 1980- FACT 25 New Order / Ian Curtis
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May 22, 2016 Sold Date
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Iconic second release from Joy Division, on lovely vinyl. By turns fabulously bleak, brutal and thrilling - an essential release in the post-punk, early 80s musical landscape, and a clear indicator of beat explosion that was to come to full fruition later in New Order, after the tragic suicide of Ian Curtis. 
Outer sleeve VG, inner EX, disc VG+ - a couple of hairline marks that aren't discernible when playing, plus a few spindle marks on the label - otherwise excellent.
I love vinyl and treat it with respect. Your record has been carefully checked, and will be cleaned and packaged in a rigid cardboard mailer, for safe delivery. Free posting and packing and rapid dispatch.
Sample sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkcPS3GHQY&ab_channel=jarksjold
Product review

Guitar tracks such as Colony and A Means to an End sounded angular, brutal and unforgiving, almost chilling in their terrifying beauty. But then the deceptively perky Isolation was mutated disco, which pointed the way towards electro-pop and the surviving members' regroup as New Order. 24 Hours, where Peter Hook's mournful bass intro leads into a guitar-raging whirlpool, is still the definitive Joy Division anthem.

Then there's the spectral serenity of the synthesiser tracks, truly emotional music made with machines. The whiplash drumbeat and haunting, sub-bass shadows of Heart and Soul; the almost classical serenity of the piano-led, funereal The Eternal; the awesome Decades, Curtis gazing sorrowfully at human suffering and warfare's "doors of hell's darker chambers", burdened by insights and events far beyond his years and his voice almost ghostly, a one-time punk with a new, Frank Sinatra-like croon.

It took three or four plays to fully hit home. But I can still remember an open window, the sun streaming on to my Fidelity UA4 stereo and a thought hitting me then that remains unchanged 31 years later: I love this album more then any music ever. For me, Closer contains the saddest, most beautiful music ever made.




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