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Unknown Pleasures
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Unknown Pleasures is a studio album by Joy Division, released on 14 July 1979 through Factory Records in the United Kingdom. It was produced by Martin Hannett, with cover art by Peter Saville, and is classified as gothic rock, or Goth Rock in some catalogues. The album has lyrics in English, was issued on LP record, and contains ten tracks.
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Key facts
- Released
- 15 June 1979
- Recorded
- 1–17 April 1979
- Studio
- Strawberry ( Stockport , UK)
- Genre
- Post-punk gothic rock new wave punk rock
- Length
- 39 : 28
- Label
- Factory
- Producer
- Martin Hannett
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- gothic rock
- Producer
- Martin Hannett
- Duration
- 2301
- Performer
- Joy Division
- Record label
- Factory Records
- Distribution format
- LP record
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- publication date
- 1979-07-14
- language of work or name
- English language
- cover art by
- Peter Saville
- form of creative work
- studio album
- place of publication
- United Kingdom
- title
- Unknown Pleasures
- number of parts of this work
- 10
- review score
- 5
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Encyclopedic overview
Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by the English rock band Joy Division. It was released on 15 June 1979 through Factory Records. The album was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport's Strawberry Studios in April 1979, with producer Martin Hannett contributing a number of unconventional recording techniques to the group's sound. The cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville, using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar. It is the only Joy Division album released during lead singer Ian Curtis's lifetime.
Factory Records did not release any singles from Unknown Pleasures. In January 1980 the album placed at no. 2 on the first publication of the Indie Albums Chart. It reached no. 71 on the Albums Chart when reissued in July 1980 just after the release of the subsequent album Closer. It has since received sustained critical acclaim as an influential post-punk album, and has been named as one of the best albums of all time by publications such as NME, AllMusic, Select, Rolling Stone, and Spin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Unknown Pleasures” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.