Unknown Pleasures - Remastered Studio Album With Bonus Disc: "Live In Manchester" (1979)

"These ten songs are, quite simply, stone-cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair. Martin Hannett's deservedly famous production emphasizes space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub. But even though this is Hannett's album as much as anyone's, the songs and performances are the true key. Bernard Sumner redefined heavy metal sludge as chilling feedback fear and explosive energy, Peter Hook's instantly recognizable bass work at once warm and forbidding, Stephen Morris' drumming smacking through the speakers above all else. Ian Curtis synthesizes and purifies every last impulse, his voice shot through with the desire first and foremost to connect. Pick any song: all visceral, all emotional, all theatrical, all perfect -- one of the best albums ever." (Ned Raggett, Allmusic) Op CD2 een concertopname van 13 juli 1979, gemaakt in The Factory, Manchester. De kwaliteit van die live-opnamen is geen hifi, maar voldoende om de intensiteit voelbaar te maken.