Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division, released in 1979 (UK), post-punk.
- Artist: Joy Division
- Year: 1979
- Genre: Post-Punk
- Country: UK
Overview
Ian Curtis shadow baritone, Peter Hook high bass and Martin Hannett frozen production created a new interior landscape for rock. The cover, a white pulse train from a pulsar, became a design icon. Curtis died months later and the album grew into the founding text of post punk.
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