Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Joy Division" in Portuguese language version.
Siouxsie and the Banshees were one of our big influences [...] The Banshees first LP was one of my favourite ever records, the way the guitarist and the drummer played was a really unusual way of playing.
It would be Siouxsie and the Banshees to whom I most felt some kind of affinity. [...] the bass-led rhythm, the way first drummer Kenny Morris played mostly toms. [...] The banshees had that [...] foreboding sound, sketching out the future from the dark of the past. [...] hearing the sessions they'd done on John Peel's show and reading gigs write-ups, [...] they sounded interesting.
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.