Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures [FACTORY]

Why you'll love it

Unknown Pleasures is the post-punk era's defining album, with "Disorder," "Shadowplay" and "She's Lost Control," Martin Hannett's eerie production and one of the most famous album covers ever made.

This edition

• Single LP, 10 tracks
• Remastered, 180g vinyl
• Peter Saville's original pulsar artwork

About the album

Joy Division left us a legacy of just a handful of singles and two utterly smashing studio albums before the band's story was cut short in May of 1980 but ... ooooooh ... what a legacy it is. Even if you don't factor the band's subsequent rebirth as New Order into the equation.

Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division's 1979 debut, is arguably the post-punk era's most lasting masterpiece, often imitated but never properly duplicated, and it still sounds as chilling and magnetic as it did in 1979. It's nevertheless an album that leaves an indelible mark on everyone who gets it from the moment they stagger away from it the first time. It's just bonkers. Nothing sounded like it before it came along and nothing will ever sound like it again.

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Tracklist

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On Factory, a remastered reissue of the 1979 album.