To celebrate the 35th anniversary of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" on June 27th, Rhino is reissuing four iconic Joy Division releases on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl. The studio albums Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980) are being followed by Still (1981
Joy Division recorded only two albums before singer Ian Curtis tragically took his own life in 1980. But what the Manchester quartet lacked in longevity, they made up for in quality. The two albums pioneered a new sound and mood for alternative music.
Closer, the band's 1980 sophomore album released two months after the death of lead singer Ian Curtis, continued where the first album left off, with "Heart And Soul", "Isolation", and "Twenty Four Hours".
This 1979 collection of the Buzzcocks first 8 UK singles is a masterpiece of Pop Punk: high tension chainsaw guitars churn beneath front man Pete Shelley's dry, sly lyrics of love ventured and, mostly, lost.