Joy Division "Exhibition - Amsterdam 1980" Rocktober 2016 Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw

Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric

Heroes is an album of two halves—the second side being taken up with the brooding instrumentals he and producer Brian Eno cooked up while the engineers were busy wiring up eight microphones in the hallway

The US Edition contains 12 of their hits

with the pulsing serving as a shorthand for the power that Victor will use to bring his creature into existence

Perhaps more surprising and gratifying are the ways it has influenced electronic music

Joy Division "Exhibition - Amsterdam 1980" Rocktober 2016 Emily Haines and Jimmy ShawAlmost 45 years since their untimely demise following the premature death of Ian Curtis, Joy Division remain as iconic and influential as they ever were; testament to a band of enormous substance, great depth, and abundant talent. This album showcases Joy Divisions gig at Paradiso, in Amsterdam, on 11 January 1980, during the Unknown Pleasures tour. Due to the local support act failing to appear, Joy Division performed two completely different sets