Joy Division · 1980 · 1980s · Entry 42 of 272
Closer
Released two months after Curtis died. Colder, more synthetic, and impossible to hear without the weight of what came next.
Pitchfork
Read review →Even more austere, more claustrophobic, more inventive, more beautiful and more haunting than its predecessor — Joy Division's start-to-finish masterpiece.
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