Closer
Joy Division · 1980
Closer is Joy Division's second and final album, made at Britannia Row Studios in London in March 1980 and released that July, two months after Curtis's suicide. Martin Hannett produced again, pushing further into synthesisers and drum machines than on the debut, while Hook and Sumner still argued with his mixing choices. J.G. Ballard's fiction shaped several lyrics, most directly on the opening track. The record topped critics' year-end lists before its title became impossible to hear as anything but literal.
