For the 2002 Chinese film, see Unknown Pleasures (film).
1979 studio album by Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
Studio album by
Joy Division
Released
15 June 1979 (1979-06-15)
Recorded
1–17 April 1979
Studio
Strawberry (Stockport)
Genre
Post-punk
gothic rock
new wave[1]
Length
39:28
Label
Factory
Producer
Martin Hannett[2]
Joy Division chronology
An Ideal for Living (1978)
Unknown Pleasures (1979)
Closer (1980)
Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by the English rock band Joy Division, released on 15 June 1979 by Factory Records.[2] The album was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport's Strawberry Studios in April 1979, with producer Martin Hannett contributing a number of unconventional recording techniques to the group's sound. The cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville, using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar.[3] It is the only Joy Division album released during lead singer Ian Curtis's lifetime.
Factory Records did not release any singles from Unknown Pleasures, and the album did not chart despite the relative success of the group's follow-up single "Transmission". It has since received sustained critical acclaim as an influential post-punk album, and has been named as one of the best albums of all time by publications such as NME, AllMusic, Select, Rolling Stone, and Spin.
^de Visé, Daniel. "Thirteen New Wave Album Classics". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^ ab"Joy Division – discography". JoyDivisionOfficial.com. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
^Weltevrede, Patrick (11 July 2019). "Joy Division: 40 years on from 'Unknown Pleasures', astronomers have revisited the pulsar from the iconic album cover". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
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