Here he is, the foundation of currently degenerated to pure fashion movement gothic culture ... to compare the music of Joy Division with a gothic cathedral meets formally into "black" because it was not only the cause of a new Begriffswerdung but a of the first bands who could express this then new-born black world perspective, the loneliness and isolation in the big city desert, the gloomy industrial romanticism and the inexorable "Ice Age" of the company on a purist, yet fragile and brutal manner. "Closer" is like an enormous black hole that sucks up a profoundly disturbed and frightened, but also attracts and formally in his electric density and width. Is compared to the other albums of this much more homogenous and more complex, as almost dissonant keyboards can be found on "Isolation", even psychedelic structures with "Heart and Soul", literally the centerpiece of the album, as well as military action punk influences in " Colony ". The strongest piece, however, is clearly the minimalist "Passover"; Here is the Joy Division-typical powerful bass combined with a softly distorted guitar that is the epitome of every nightly claustrophobia and despair in its purest form ... This album has my consciousness changed ... The Doors of Perception pushed gently. RIP Ian Curtis
