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Album cover for Joy Division's 'Substance' with text on a gray background
Vinyl record set with a gray cover featuring 'Joy Division' and 'Substance' text.
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Joy Division - Substance

2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram

Genre Tags: Post-Punk and Goth Rock

Substance doesn’t feel like a retrospective so much as a map—one that traces Joy Division’s short, intense arc in sharp, unforgettable lines.

Released in 1988, the compilation gathers the band’s singles, EP tracks, and key non-album cuts, many of which never appeared on Unknown Pleasures or Closer. Heard together, they reveal a parallel Joy Division: more immediate, more physical, and often more confrontational than the albums suggest. This is the sound of a band refining urgency in real time.

The early tracks crackle with nervous energy—dry drums, jagged guitars, basslines that move like pressure rather than melody. As the collection progresses, space opens up, tempos slow, and the music grows heavier and more internal. Ian Curtis’s voice remains the constant: detached, resolute, and unsettlingly direct.

Substance is essential not because it completes the story, but because it shows how much was happening between the chapters. A document of motion, tension, and momentum—Joy Division caught in the act of becoming.

A1 Warsaw
A2 Leaders Of Men
A3 Digital
A4 Autosuggestion
A5 Transmission

B1 She's Lost Control
B2 Incubation
B3 Dead Souls
B4 Atmosphere
B5 Love Will Tear Us Apart

C1 No Love Lost
C2 Failures
C3 Glass
C4 From Safety To Where

D1 Novelty
D2 Komakino
D4 As You Said
D3 These Days
D5 Love Will Tear Us Apart (Pennine Version)

Joy Division - Substance

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