It was just a setting that we'd never imagined our music being in, so it was like, ‘Wurgh, what have you done?’” What they had done was create 10 songs whose frostbitten grandeur, minimalist aesthetic and unflinching introspection continue to manifest themselves in literature and cinema and on catwalks as well as countless dark-souled indie, synth-pop and goth bands. Martin gave the music a depth and put it in a setting that it was made for. “Martin had definitely toned down-or twisted-the rawness into another kind of rawness,” Morris tells Apple Music. Hannett’s singular, haunting vision for their music was in keeping with the bleak melodrama of Curtis’ lyrics, but some of the punk intensity of their live shows had been lost. However, Hook and Sumner in particular were unconvinced. Three weeks later, they’d recorded an enormously influential cultural landmark. In April 1979, Joy Division-singer Ian Curtis, bassist Peter Hook, drummer Stephen Morris and guitarist Bernard Sumner-convened at Strawberry Studios in Stockport with producer Martin Hannett. You don’t always know when you’ve made a masterpiece.
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