The dramatic, distant work of Joy Division endures as one of rock and roll’s most challenging curiosities... Their beginnings aren’t particularly extraordinary, but the band’s furious evolution over the course of just three years is testament to a fearless imagination, purposeful single-mindedness and innovative spirit as potent as any in the history of popular music.
Joy Division
I remember feeling as though I’d been sitting in a darkened room all of my life — comfortable and warm and safe and quiet — then all of a sudden someone had kicked the door in, and it had burst open to let in an intense bright light and this even more intense noise, showing me another world, another life, a way out.
Peter Hook
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division (itbooks/Simon & Schuster UK, 2012)
The Palace explores the journey of the band My Eyes Shut, their risks, their trust, and their emerging risk-it-all post-punk sonic experiments.
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