Atmosphere

My dad has played an integral role in my music education, spending hours listening to all these bands and songs that he loved when growing up and what he still loves, together. He loves the original punk bands as well as the really artsy and alternative bands of the 70's and 80's. One of his favourite bands would be Joy Division, which were a band from Manchester in the late 1970's. They only released two albums, 'Unknown Pleasures' and 'Closer' which is a shame because I (as well as many others) absolutely love the band's experimental sounds and would of loved hearing more pieces of theirs.

Joy Division were revolutionary to the music world, using sounds that were never considered to be under the category of traditional music. In fact, the unorthodox sounds can be seen as the instigator of a whole new genre of music which has influenced the techno music of today in terms of "experimental". The reason for Joy Division only having two albums was due to the suicide of the lead singer Ian Curtis, which was a tragic loss to the band and to their fans. However, the band renamed to become New Order, which was also especially influential in the 1980's. Ian Curtis' voice is so hypnotic and so unique, and it is the uniqueness of the band and Curtis which makes the extremely dark songs of Joy Division so mesmerising to listen to; it puts you in a trance-like state and it is addictive to listen to. 

Their most well known song would probably be "Love will tear us apart" (which is one of my favourite songs of Joy Division) but today I'm going to share one of my other favourites of theirs, which is 'Atmosphere' which was released as a single and it is a perfect example of how captivating Ian Curtis' voice and the band's music is. This may not be a lot of peoples taste in music, but I absolutely love it and think it is a crucial band to at least know about: