Closer  by Joy Division

Closer is the second and last album of a band that abruptly stopped the frantic path it seemed to be taking as the second album of 1980 came to continue from the point where it had stopped a few months before its debut. Unrefined post-punk, hypnotic synthesizers, and Ian Curtis's voice emerging from the depths of the earth - prophetic (!)

The compositions are credited to all members and one follows the other with a devastating rhythm. The recording lasted from March 18 to 30, 1980. The funny thing is that the majority of the songs were written on the fly in some rehearsal space. The album, of course, starts with the cover. Photographer Bernard Pierre Wolff took a photo of the family tomb of the House of Appiani in Tuscany, Italy, and the band used it as the cover of Closer.

The album was a big success in Great Britain as it sold 100,000 copies and reached No. 6 on the country's charts.