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A forever favorite.
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A forever favorite.
Oh yeah, this is a great album. Fun fact is my better half offered it to me mostly because of the cover (it's adapted from the very first detection of a pulsar, in '67, by Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- yeah, we're nerds). I vaguely knew them, and felt in love with their cold and yet dancing music. I love how overwhelming the bass sound is. Songs as New Dawn Fades are close to perfection.
1979 was a strange time in Britain. The energy of punk had evaporated and no one yet knew what to expect from the 80s. This album captured a particular zeitgeist with icily precise production and the immense bass line of Peter Hook. I was never really a fan of Ian Curtis’s gloomy, monotone vocals but this really was something quite unique. A shoutout for one of the most iconic album covers of all time, showing the radio pulses from a neutron star.