Joy Division’s Closer reissued in 40th anniversary edition
Alongside 12″ singles ‘She’s Lost Control’, ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’, and ‘Transmission’.
Joy Division are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their 1980 album Closer with a new reissue this July.
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Released a year after the group’s debut – Unknown Pleasures – on Factory Records in 1980, Closer marked Joy Division’s final LP before Ian Curtis’ suicide in 1980.
In addition to the 40th anniversary edition reissue of Closer, non-album singles ‘Transmission’, ‘Atmosphere’ and ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ are also being reissued on separate 12″s with their original B-sides, the first re-release since Factory Records closed in 1992.
Head here to pre-order a copy of Closer, here for Transmission, here for Atmosphere, and here for Love Will Tear Us Apart in advance of their 17th July release, check out the artwork and tracklist below.
Tracklist:
Closer
Side A
2. Isolation
3. Passover
4. Colony
5. A Means To An End
Side B
2. Twenty Four Hours
3. The Eternal
4. Decades
Transmission
Side A
1. Transmission
Side B
1. Novelty
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Side A
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
Side B
1. These Days
Atmosphere
Side A
1. Atmosphere
Side B
1. She’s Lost Control
Photo: Pierre René-Worms
