(en) Luke Lewis, « Release The Bats », sur NME, (consulté le ), Peter Hook despairs whenever anyone refers to Joy Division as a goth band, but what else were they? Desolate atmospherics, icily reverberating synths, Ian Curtis' portentous baritone. All those qualities found their ultimate expression in Atmosphere, a song whose shattering emotive power is intensified by Anton Corbijn's monochrome video (shot eight years after the song's original release), featuring mysterious hooded figures swarming slowly over a bleached landscape. Most gothic moment: The vast, echoing guitar chords that enter at 3.23
