JOY DIVISION - Closer LP reggae Record Store Day 2022

Record Store Day 2022

there's a prominent drum machine

and this album offers nine sullen and frequently heavy songs that brim with nostalgia and suburban ennui

Gone also are the hempy lyrics à la Jerusalem's "Drop out of life with bong in hand/ Follow the smoke toward the riff filled land

sometimes mathematical and sometimes avant

JOY DIVISION - Closer LP reggae Record Store Day 2022180 gram vinyl cut from the 2007 remasters. Second and final LP by doomed Salford post punk band Joy Division, this is perhaps most often cited their greatest moment. Recorded shortly before the untimely death of singer Ian Curtis, whose health deteriorated rapidly during the making of this album, and produced by Martin Hannet.