Joy Division: Band On The Wall, Manchester
Paul Morley, NME, 9 September 1978
THOSE FAMILIAR with this young quartet. mainly through their excitable appearance on the "Short Circuit" pretty package, and to a lesser extent with their self produced An Ideal For Living EP, unimpressed by their ordinariness but detecting deep in their industry and pretensions a potential for making a more effective, ambitious music, should look to Joy Division now.
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