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| Released | 15 June 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1–17 April 1979 | |||
| Studio | Strawberry Studios (Stockport) | |||
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| Length | 39:28 | |||
| Label | Factory | |||
| Producer | Martin Hannett[5] | |||
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Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by the English rock band Joy Division. It was released on 15 June 1979 through Factory Records.[5] The album was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport's Strawberry Studios in April 1979, with producer Martin Hannett contributing a number of unconventional recording techniques to the group's sound. The cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville, using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar.[6] It is the only Joy Division album released during lead singer Ian Curtis's lifetime.
Factory Records did not release any singles from Unknown Pleasures. In January 1980 the album placed at no. 2 on the first publication of the Indie Albums Chart. It reached no. 71 on the Albums Chart when reissued in July 1980 just after the release of the subsequent album Closer. It has since received sustained critical acclaim as an influential post-punk album, and has been named as one of the best albums of all time by publications such as NME, AllMusic, Select, Rolling Stone, and Spin.
- ^ https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/unknown-pleasures-joy-division-album/"Now widely hailed as one of post-punk’s most important touchstones, it’s one of a few truly singular rock albums deserving of the over-used epithet “seminal”, yet its influence on successive generations amazes no one more than Joy Division’s remaining members."
- ^ https://www.gingerconnect.com/features/album-reviewsnbsp-part-i-of-ii-joy-divisions-unknown-pleasures"Unknown Pleasures introduced the world to a new version of punk that would take storm as the New Wave genre"
- ^ https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/12959/Joy-Division-Unknown-Pleasures/"And most people hated life. While most punk bands made aggressive music to put their anger into, Joy Division made a slower, more emotional variety on punk rock"
- ^ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/40-greatest-punk-albums-of-all-time-75659/joy-division-unknown-pleasures-1979-174736/
- ^ a b "Joy Division – discography". JoyDivisionOfficial.com. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
- ^ Weltevrede, Patrick (11 July 2019). "Joy Division: 40 years on from 'Unknown Pleasures', astronomers have revisited the pulsar from the iconic album cover". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.