Essential New Music: Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures,” “Closer,” “Still” And “Substance”

Thirty-five years on from “Love Will Tear Us Apart”—Joy Division’s magnum opus during a short career that was essentially a human highlight reel of concepts that would go on to form the backbone of what we now shorthand as “post-punk”—the band remains a mythical unicorn, a Mancunian magic act that briefly appeared on our collective … Continue reading Essential New Music: Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures,” “Closer,” “Still” And “Substance”