New Dawn Fades

"New Dawn Fades"
Song by Joy Division from the album Unknown Pleasures
Released	15 June 1979
Recorded	1–17 April 1979 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport
Genre	Post-punk, gothic rock[1]
Length	4:47
Label	Factory Records
Writer	Bernard Sumner Peter Hook Stephen Morris Ian Curtis [2]
Producer	Martin Hannett, Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures track listing
"Insight" (4) "New Dawn Fades" (5) "She's Lost Control" (6)

"New Dawn Fades" is a song from the 1979 album Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division. It opens with a backwards and heavily modified sample from previous song "Insight", presumably added by Martin Hannett, post-production. The song relies on an ascending guitar riff by Bernard Sumner played against a descending bass riff by Peter Hook. The song uses the same progression throughout, but grows in intensity as the song progresses, reaching its peak with Ian Curtis singing "Me, seeing me this time, hoping for something else", and ending with a guitar solo. The song closes side one of Unknown Pleasures. It's also one of few Joy Division songs with two distinct guitars playing, one distorted and one a clean electric guitar picking notes from the guitar chords.

It has been covered by Moby in cooperation with New Order. There is also a version from former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante. Ambient techno act The Sight Below covered it on its second album It All Falls Apart, featuring vocals by Jesy Fortino of Tiny Vipers.^[3][4][5] The band Rheinallt H Rowlands recorded a version of the song, sung in Welsh.^[6]

"New Dawn Fades" has been featured in several films. In the 1995 film Heat, an instrumental version of Moby's cover plays during the car chase leading up to Al Pacino's and Robert De Niro's first on-screen meeting. It was also used in the 2005 remake of House of Wax, and a live version was featured in the 2006 Academy Award nominee Reprise. An instrumental version was produced by Christopher Drake on the Batman Year One Soundtrack. It was most-recently used in the soundtrack for Antoine Fuqua's 2014 movie, The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington.

References

1. Spencer Patterson. "'Unknown Pleasures' shows gloom with a view". LasVegasSun.com. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
3. ""New Dawn Fades" [Joy Division cover; ft. Tiny Vipers] - Forkcast Archive". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
4. "The Sight Below: 'New Dawn Fades' (Joy Division Cover)". Prefixmag. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
5. "surfing on steam". Surfingonsteam.blogspot.com. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
6. "BBC - Radio Cymru - C2". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics