Closer (Joy Division album)

Closer
Studio album by
Joy Division
Released18 July 1980 (1980-07-18)
Recorded18–30 March 1980
StudioBritannia Row (Islington)
Genre
Length44:16
LabelFactory
ProducerMartin Hannett
Joy Division chronology
Unknown Pleasures
(1979) 		Closer
(1980) 		Still
(1981)

Closer[n 1] is the second and final studio album by the English rock band Joy Division, released on 18 July 1980 by Factory Records.[5] Produced by Martin Hannett, it was released two months after the suicide of the band's lead singer and lyricist Ian Curtis. The album reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart[6] and peaked at No. 3 in New Zealand in September 1981.[7] Closer was also named NME Album of the Year.[8][9] It was remastered and re-released in 2007.[5]

Today, Closer is widely recognised as a seminal release of the post-punk era.[10] Following the release of the non-album single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in June 1980, the remaining members re-formed as New Order.

  1. ^ Gilmore, Mikal (28 May 1981). "Unknown Pleasures". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 September 2024."The band's second and last album, Closer (recorded just prior to Curtis' death and released shortly afterward by Factory), became one of the fastest-selling independent-label LPs in British New Wave history."
  2. ^ Terich, Jeff (27 October 2010). "10 Essential Gothic Rock Albums". Treble. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  3. ^ Morley, Paul (2015). Joy Division: Piece by Piece. Plexus Publishing. p. 168. ISBN 9780859658812 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Peter Hook on Joy Division's Closer. Backspin. Yahoo!. 12 April 2017. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ a b "Joy Division – discography". Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Closer | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Charts.org.nz – Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart"". Top 40 Singles. Archived from the original on 22 May 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  8. ^ Board, Patricia (2 December 2010). "NME's albums of the year, 1974–2011". NME. Archived from the original on 3 November 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  9. ^ NME staff (10 October 2016). "1980 Best Albums And Tracks Of The Year". NME. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
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