The start of it all ...

Velvet Underground and the Berlin trilogy of David Bowie were the blueprints for this album. Never before nihilism, hopelessness and stagnation were set to music as ingenious on this Martin Hannet perfect laws in scene farewell to the neo-capitalist Britain Margaret Thatcher's. The desolation of the post-industrial Manchester, the hopelessness of a kleinbürglichen life and the broken promises of a single concert a while less talented but nonetheless influential punk band manifested in this album. Or in other words: Depression has never sounded hotter than here. "Unknown Pleasures" is cold, the guitars jangle, the bass is booming, the drums could just as well come from a drum machine, so monotonous and stoic had previously only Moe Tucker operated the drums, but it's hard, to the fascination of this album to withdraw. Even today, the shadow Joy Division's noticeable or audible and the British not only in the bass figures Independent bands. What Sonic Youth, proclaimed in 1992, actually took place in 1979 already - the year punk broke!

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Disorder
New Dawn Fades
She's Lost Control
Shadowplay

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