Closer

Joy Division - Closer

Closer
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Artist: Joy Division
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Qwest / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Atrocity exhibition
  2. Isolation
  3. Passover
  4. Colony
  5. A Means To An End
  6. Heart & Soul
  7. Twenty Four Hours
  8. The Eternal
  9. Decades

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Free Music Review: 'Leaders of Men'
Hit: 5 Stars

Still sounding years ahead of its time, `Closer' has a reputation for coldness, for despair and for grim Northern doom-and-gloom, but I don't hear anything like that. I hear tough, life-affirming, FIERCE rock music, and while there's not much in the way of fun to be had here, it's not obligatory to have to take it so seriously.
The songs are (mostly) reflective and searching, but none of them are `dirges'. You could even dance to a couple of them, although you might struggle, knowing what happened just a few short weeks after it's completion.
Martin Hannett's production is excellent, giving each song a clear and clean-ness, which allows every detailed lyric to bite home, to reach every nook and cranny of your psyche. In every sense we must participate in the pain, but we know that ultimately, by suffering it, this music (and very few others) breathes victory into our lives. It's beauty cannot bring anything but positives to our existence.
A lot has been written about 'Closer' in an attempt to mystify and mythify it, most of it gleefully encouraged by Tony Wilson and co at Factory Records, and while I'm not going to de-bunk all that, you should really take it all with a pinch of salt, for what it is. A (brilliantly successful!) marketing ploy.
Which is not to say 'Closer' is meaningless, devoid of point. Far from it. It means more to me, and a lot of other people, than I can possibly describe in a few short (admittedly brilliant!) paragraphs.
A big part of my life (still...sorry.), and always will be, 'Closer' is a true great, not stained in any way by the decades (sorry again.) of hyperbole which have followed it around.
Buy it twice.

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In retrospect, the second and final album by this Manchester postpunk band seems to point straight at singer Ian Curtis's suicide, which happened a few months before it was released. The band's reverberating mesh of minor-key lines and Curtis's tremorous bass voice are doomy enough on their own, and attention to the words reveals references to blacker-than-black stories by J.G. Ballard and Joseph Conrad; the void and its terrors were splitting Curtis apart from the inside. "I put my trust in you," he sings, and his voice leaves no doubt that that trust has been betrayed. But the music, grim and powerful as it is, points to the direction the surviving members took as New Order, incorporating the mechanical gravity of club rhythms. --Douglas Wolk

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