… unremittingly dark soundscapes of jagged guitars and resounding percussion … and working with themes of depression and tragedy — echoed in the life of iconic singer Ian Curtis — Joy Division yet wrested a measure of beauty from their divine sadness … [The record is] moving in every sense of the word — shot through with synths which are both ominous and danceable, and trembling as if it might fall apart at any moment … touched by a mysterious sense of grace … Human, all too human … (1/04)
The heaviest song I know, and the most despairing — and also one of the most immediately, enduringly memorable. Somewhere, a brooding 17 year old boy with my name is still listening to this in his bedroom, over and over.
