Following the death of singer Ian Curtis, Joy Division reformatted themselves into New Order (with the addition of keyboardist Gillian Gilbert). The band's sound was a bit more synthy, and maybe more pop than the post-punk neuroses of Joy Division.
It's hard to know if they would have still eventually evolved in this direction had Curtis lived. Whatever the case, this is an enjoyable, largely synth pop-rock album, but there are moments of harsher and less compromising sounds, including the moody synth epic "Elegia".
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