JOY DIVISION

Closer (Collector's Edition)

$17.98 Vinyl

$24.98 CD

 Joy Division's 1980 album CLOSER is a landmark of post-punk musical expression that ranks #157 on Rolling Stone's “500 Greatest Albums Of All Time.” Throughout, it was musically and lyrically informed by the despair of lead singer and principal songwriter Ian Curtis, who would end his life mere months after the disc first came out. Coinciding with the U.S. premiere of Control, the new Anton Corbijn-directed film about Curtis' life, Rhino's deluxe CLOSER (COLLECTOR'S EDITION) is an expanded 2-CD set featuring the original album on Disc One plus a bonus Disc Two presenting historic, previously unreleased live material. 

 As with Joy Division's seminal '79 debut UNKNOWN PLEASURES, CLOSER was produced by Martin Hannett, who weaves sprawling emotional chaos and shifting atmospheres and textures together into an enormously powerful ten-song tour de force. 

 Stand-outs include “Heart And Soul,” “Isolation,” “Eternal,” “Decades” and the wrenching “Twenty Four Hours.” 

 Disc 2 features a previously unreleased concert performance recorded live at the University of London on February 8, 1980. It features twelve songs including “Dead Souls,” “Glass,” “Twenty Four Hours” and an encore of “The Eternal” and “Digital.” 

 Joy Division formed in Manchester, England in 1977, and had an immense and profound impact on contemporary music in a very brief time together. They recorded only two full-length studio albums, UNKNOWN PLEASURES and CLOSER, prior to lead singer Ian Curtis' 1980 suicide, just before the single “Love Will Tear Us Apart” became their breakthrough hit. The remaining members - guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris - disbanded Joy Division after Curtis' death, and re-formed as New Order.  

 2-CD COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS of the seminal Joy Division titles UNKNOWN PLEASURES and STILL are also available. 

 In addition, Rhino.com is exclusively offering 180-Gram Vinyl editions of CLOSER, UNKNOWN PLEASURES and STILL; these feature the original track listing for each album only, not the bonus material from the CD COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS. The LIMITED EDITION JOY DIVISION BOX SET (VINYL), housing all three of these LP titles on 180-Gram Vinyl, is also a Rhino.com exclusive - only 3,000 copies were made. 

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