What Joy Division - aka Warsaw at the time of recording, but not at time of release if I understand correctly - 's LP1 should have been. And indeed this is far closer to the EP punk sound than it is to the rest of their discog. In fact I was hoping it would link these two aspects of Joy Division together, but the version I heard did not have the added symths and really is just a straight continuation of what the EP was - which makes it even more surprising that they transitioned so gracefully into sad post-punk. This may have to do with prod and engineering changes as well, as this Warsaw LP sounds a whole lot more like rawer punk than crisp electronic'd post-punk. On the whole this is relatively basic punk, though not repetitive, not based on hooks to shout, and with plenty of space for the instruments to express themselves, so for sure a nice and quite subtle brand of 70's punk if anything. The tracks that stood out most to me were (I think) A4, A6, and B2, chiefly because of their nice grittiness on the guitar and adventures beyond repeating the same motifs for two minutes that punk can sometimes fall into. I jammed the 12 track version that is on youtube as fulll album, there are plenty of versions for this so I dont really know which is the canonical one - I'd be interested to hear the version with added synths that made the band initially not release this. 3.7
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