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For unknown reasons, and unlike the other three 2020 remasters, design-wise this reproduces neither the first ever (August 1980, US), nor the first European (October 1980 ,UK) but the third, (November 1980, UK) pressing
Reissued with 2020 remastered audio. Since the demise of Factory records, this single has never been repressed or reissued before and is cut on 180-gram vinyl, featuring the original artwork on heavyweight board.
It was Killing Joke's first album in seven years, following Democracy in 1996, and their second self-titled album, following their debut in 1980. With John Robb of Playlouder wrote that the album "may well be the best rock record you'll hear all year".
Closer, the band's 1980 sophomore album released two months after the death of lead singer Ian Curtis, continued where the first album left off, with "Heart And Soul", "Isolation", and "Twenty Four Hours".