I just want to chime in and say Turn On the Bright Lights sounds almost nothing like Joy Division, other than possibly Paul Banks’s freak-out vocal delivery at some parts, and a comparison that simple can find a parallel with other vocalists even before the time of Ian Curtis throughout the earliest new wave movement. Joy Division’s guitars were never so light and “twinkling,” Ian Curtis was a much deeper vocalist than Paul Banks, and lyrically? …Yeah. So don’t bother barking up that tree. It’s petty and pointless.

You’re entitled to not like any album you want, but if you want to explain why you don’t like Turn On the Bright Lights, at the very least choose a legitimate reason.

That said, I like this album a good bit. It’s very catchy and produced excellently.