Unknown Pleasures is an uncomfortable record – it is at times dense and claustrophobic while also managing to be musically and lyrically sparse and opaque. One critic described it as “a bleak nightmare soundtrack” and that’s pretty accurate. My favorite tracks are “Disorder,” “Insight,” the amazing “New Dawn Fades” (ooof – the guitar on this one!) and “Shadowplay.”

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