![]() ![]() (Curtis killed himself in 1980, aged 23 where there are no surviving notes in his hand, the song is left out.) This is the kind of production normally reserved for literary big hitters: Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, TS Eliot. ![]() It contains not quite all the band’s lyrics (seven songs are missing, says the editorial note, but I make it more), printed as sung on the recto, with pages from singer and songwriter Ian Curtis’s notebooks reproduced on the verso. T his big, beautiful, austere book, a totemic artefact, is of a piece with every other officially sanctioned Joy Division product: a visual counterpart to their sound, which was otherworldly and intimate, a hitherto unheard mixture of haunting melody and metallic clash. ![]()
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