Closer is the second and final studio album by English rock band Joy Division, released on 18 July 1980 by Factory Records. Produced by Martin Hannett, it was released two months after the suicide of the band’s lead singer and lyricist Ian Curtis.

Joy Division‘s 1980 albumCloserreleased on 180gram heavyweight vinyl LP.

Joy Divisionwere at the height of their powers onCloser, equaling and arguably bettering the astonishingUnknown Pleasures, that’s how accomplished the four members were. Rock, however defined, rarely seems and sounds so important, so vital, and so impossible to resist or ignore as here. – AllMusic

Tracklisting:
1. Atrocity Exhibition
2. Isolation
3. Passover
4. Colony
5. A Means to an End
6. Heart and Soul
7. Twenty Four Hours
8. The Eternal
9. Decades