Joy Division
Closer
New Wave Post Punk back in stock 'closer' is practically an innovation per song that compelling bass upfront drums chainsaw guitars fractious synthesisers watery atmospherics not did they preclude the swamp of new wave miserabilism but just about every gothrock record ever made and the more chilly of the new romantics their initial manic density on unknown pleasures gave way to more maudlin and melodic works as ian curtis' psychological breakdown intensified the album was produced by martin hannett and was less clattering and more haunted in that it was released after the tragic death of ian curtis 'closer' is joy division at their pinnancle