Closer-Joy Division Article

Closer...

Closer is practically an innovation per song: the compelling bass, the pronounced drums, chainsaw guitars, fractious synthesizers, watery atmospherics- not did they preclude the swamp of new wave miserabalism but just about every goth-rock record ever made and the more chilly of the new romantics. Emerging in 1978, Joy division made the fledgling Factory Records.Their initial intensity on Unknown Pleasures gave way to more maudlin and melodic works as Ian Curtis' psychological breakdown intensified- bemused crowds saw him suffer epileptic fits and blackouts on stage fueling their intrigue even further. Closer and the compilation Still were released posthumously as was their Love Will Tear Us Apart single, which took them into the charts and proved the 'proper' singing ability of Curtis. Their work became synonymous with teenage bedroom torpor and inspried a nation to some truly bollocks 'poetry' about death, life's futility and religion which seems in retrospect some of the best fun adolescence had to offer. The rest of Joy Division started again.

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