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NME 3/6/78
Live review by Paul Morley
MANCHESTER
Joy Division were once Warsaw, a punk group with literary pretentions. Warsaw Pakt forced them to change names.
They disappeared for a while at the end of last year, and have re-emerged with their new name, an EP and their pretentions even more to the fore. Their record attempts to communicate in an almost tangible way all the abstraction of Buzzcocks' "Spiral Scratch". It is called "An Ideal For Living", and is on the Enigma label. It proclaims on the sleeve that "this is not a concept EP, it is an enigma."
Despite all this, the record is structurally good, though soundwise poor, a reason it may not be widely released.
They're a dry, doomy group who depend promisingly on the possibilities of repetition, sudden stripping away, with deceptive dynamics, whilst they use sound in a more orthodox hard rock manner than, say, either The Fall or Magazine. They have an ambiguous appeal, and with patience they could develop strongly and make some testing, worthwhile metallic music.
Last updated on 2005-03-07 10:14:00 PM - 10:14:00 PM
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