The Post Founded in 1977, punk and New Wave legend of the early deceased singer Ian Curtis put the deep black "Unknown Pleasures" already an excellent debut in front. Although the proximity to the punk rock group from Manchester was still noticeable, but it was the supercooled atmosphere and the reduced aesthetic that made this debut so outstanding. A year later his successor "Closer". Ian Curtis did not live to the release of the album, however. He committed suicide two months before the album's release. "Closer" confirmed the development Joy Division`s away from the harsh post-punk, towards minimalist aesthetic formulated New Wave. Nevertheless, the second- and last album the group from Manchester you can tell by its incompleteness. The bit static-ungelenkige Beat in "isolation" does not quite carried away just as the thread "Colony", the catchy hooks missing, to adhere the song in memory. It is the second half of "Closer", on which the tape is running in top form, playing perhaps the most intense songs of her career. "Heart And Soul", "Twenty Four Hours", "The Eternal" and the closing "Decades" live from their grueling depressive mood and pull "Closer" in deep chasms. No really hopeful, but nice ending a brief but memorable era.
