Perhaps it’s the genre that killed you
A music review expressed from the perspective of a fictional character
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3 min readApr 16, 2023
A music critic once wrote that Ian Curtis’ suicide was the ultimate artistic statement. Without it, he said, Joy Division’s final album, Closer, would not have held the same weight today. The album, as well as the tragedy that would make Curtis saint-like in goth-heaven, helped…