The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to Closer

These are the albums most often named alongside Joy Division - Closer by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Joy Division, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. New Order - Movement
2. The Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander by Mistake
3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4. The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
5. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
6. Tricky - Maxinquaye
7. Happy Mondays - Bummed
8. Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside
9. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
10. New Order - Low‐Life
11. Tindersticks - Tindersticks
12. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
13. The Cure - Pornography
14. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
15. Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
16. The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
17. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
18. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
19. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
20. Andraé Crouch - Vol. I-classics
21. Bailter Space - Tanker
22. Bauhaus - Greatest Hits
23. Beatsteaks - Smack Smash
24. Cabaret Voltaire - 2X45
25. Can - Inner Space
26. Current 93 - Emblems
27. Depeche Mode - Ultra
28. Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Deep River
29. Fra Lippo Lippi - Small Mercy
30. Gibb Droll - Dhrama

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