The milestone

It's hard to put into words what one feels when the first notes of this 21 year old disc resound. The first piece "Atrocity Exhibition" distraught with his eternal drumming and this text ... Anyway. CLOSER is the milestone of the modern independent music and even offer much more. Musically this album can be described even to this day in quite as highly innovative. Hardly anyone (or no one actually) has been able to Ian Curtis, to give as much energetic power of darkness as much substance as on this album. His lyrics and music merge into a unique unit in intensity until today unmatched. Of course, the production plays third supporting role as with "Unknown Pleasures" THE. Integrating keyboards -electronically fanfare, hissing flak from primitive 80s diode is fully managed. How set in stone work songs, immutable, eternal. Nothing can erase these sounds again, forever captured on the hard drive memory. "Heart and Soul", for example. A sound from another world. Metallic, cold, relentless. Or "Decades": the most beautiful, cruel song about loneliness, I know. Or "isolation", or, or, or. Who rather kopfschüttelnt confronts the dark side of existence: People - Stay away from this album. Hear further your techno-garbage or Britney-dirt. Here artists were at work that operated beyond a measurable scale ...