Joy Division

Joy Division
Formed: 1977
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Disbanded: May 18, 1980
Genre: Rock
Styles: Post-Punk, Punk
Group Members: Bernard Albrecht, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Steve Brotherdale
Biography: 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 ...Read full biography
Closer
Released: 1980
Label: WEA/Warner
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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 ...Read full review
Unknown Pleasures
Released: 1979
Label: WEA/Warner
Critics' Rating:
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 ...Read full review
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