Joy Division, Closer, Factory FACT 25, Rough Textured Straight Corners, Opaque Black Vinyl, 180g LP, 1980, UK 1st

 

Label: Factory – FACT∙XXV, Factory – FACT. 25.

Format: 12” Vinyl Album, 180g LP, Rough Textured Straight Corners, Opaque Black Vinyl.

Country: UK.

Released: 18 Jul 1980.

Genre: New Wave, Post-Punk.

 

 

A1 – Atrocity Exhibition                      6:03

A2 – Isolation                                     2:53

A3 – Passover                                   4:44

A4 – Colony                                       3:52

A5 – A Means To An End                   4:04

B1 – Heart And Soul                          5:48

B2 – Twenty Four Hours                    4:26

B3 – The Eternal                                6:01

B4 – Decades                                    6:08

 

Record Company – Factory Records.

Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.

Pressed By – Tranco Limited.

Design – Martyn Atkins, Peter Saville.

Producer – Martin Hannett.

 

Outer cover: cardboard sleeve.

Inner sleeve: rough textured with straight corners.

Vinyl: opaque black.

 

Cat#: FACT·XXV on cover

FACT. 25 on labels

Matrix Runout (Side A variant 1): FACT 25 A1 OLD BLUE ?

Matrix Runout (Side B variant 1): FACT 25 B-1

 

This is the original UK 1st opaque black pressing LP in picture sleeve with square cornered textured inner sleeve.

 

Vinyl: Near Mint (NM).

Sleeve: Near Mint (NM).

Inner Sleeve: Near Mint (NM).

 

Vinyl and sleeve now housed in a 12″ PVC sleeve for protection. Record cleaned using the Degritter ultrasonic record cleaning machine and housed in a Vinyl Guardian anti-static and anti-scratch protective inner sleeve.

 

Tracked/Recorded.