Release Date: June 15th, 1979
My new year's resolution was to listen to more "classic" albums, whether it's for the first time, or an album I'm revisiting. Of course, I've heard of Joy Division, they get mention whenever anyone talks about post-punk. The album cover for this album is pretty iconic.
Review: Anyways, is this album good? Talking about old albums is tricky because I know I can be swayed by the things being written about said album. I've seen the perfect scores. I've seen the top 10 placements. Because my favorite band is The National, I can sorta hear why The National gets compared to them, but very faintly.
The opening track is really good. but I kept wondering if they were really bad at their instruments or not. It sounded like they could only play two notes. But it really grew on me. vocally, dude sounds so robotic. The next few tracks felt slow and sluggish. a slow slow burn. and again, some of the instrumentals just sounds like they only know a few notes.
the whole album is like this, very cold feeling, with a few out burst to make it interesting. because I tried listening to this about 10 times, the melodies became clearer to me, but i don't know if its because i like it or because i come to understand it.
Summary: so this is post-punk.
Favorite Songs:
Disorder, Insight, New Dawn Fades
Rating: 8/10
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