Joy Division - Closer
180 gram, Reissue, Remastered
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The group's second album remastered and reissued on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl. Replicating the original album artwork, cut from the 2007 remasters. Includes download code.
Released just two months after the death of frontman Ian Curtis, Closer stands as Joy Division’s final, devastating statement—an album that pushes deeper into emotional ruin and atmospheric precision than anything the band had done before.
Where Unknown Pleasures was raw and urgent, Closer is stark and elegiac—ice-cold synthesizers, funereal drums, and Curtis’s haunted baritone unravel across tracks that feel both intimate and distant. Produced by Martin Hannett, the album turns negative space into power, capturing the band in slow-motion collapse.
Closer is not just essential—it’s sacred. The sound of a band becoming something eternal just as they fade away.