The second album by
Joy Division (under that name), released in
1980, after
Ian Curtis's death. The track list is
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Isolation
- Passover
- Colony
- A Means to an End
- Heart and Soul
- Twenty Four Hours
- The Eternal
- Decades
The cover is
not a well-known engraving by one of the French classical painters: thank you
Apatrix for the correct answer. The cover is a relief sculpture by
O. Toso from the
Staglieno cemetery in
Genoa. It is of two dead figures
shrouded in cloths; the light illuminates only them; to one side is a figure mourning, and clasping the hand for
comfort of someone on the outside of the shot. The
typography is simple and elegant: just the word CLOSER on the front above the black-and-white picture. (And it's far too
minimalist to credit the picture anywhere.)
Curtis chose another Staglieno sculpture, a supine angle by D. Paernio, for the single Love Will Tear Us Apart.