Genre
Post-Punk
Post-punk took punk's energy somewhere artier after 1977: angular guitars, dub-influenced bass, cold atmospheres, and conceptual ambition. Joy Division, Wire, and Gang of Four wrote a vocabulary that the 2000s and 2020s revivals still speak.
Post-Punk on Riffiter: 89 albums from artists including Joy Division, Fontaines D.C., The Fall, ranked by popularity and community ratings.
Key artists
Albums
Substance
Joy Division · 1988
Entertainment!
Gang of Four · 1979
Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979
Joy Division · 2001
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division · 1980
A Hero's Death
Fontaines D.C. · 2020
Relatives in Descent
ProtoMartyr · 2017
Metal Box
Public Image Ltd. · 1979
Romance
Fontaines D.C. · 2024
Chairs Missing
Wire · 1978
Ultimate Success Today
ProtoMartyr · 2020
Dogrel
Fontaines D.C. · 2019
The Greatest Hits, So Far
Public Image Ltd. · 1990
Joy as an Act of Resistance.
IDLES · 2018
This is PiL
Public Image Ltd. · 2012
Album
Public Image Ltd. · 1985
Solid Gold
Gang of Four · 1981
What the World Needs Now…
Public Image Ltd. · 2015
The Agent Intellect
ProtoMartyr · 2015
Change Becomes Us
Wire · 2013
Mind Hive
Wire · 2020
No Passion All Technique
ProtoMartyr · 2012
Second Edition
Public Image Ltd. · 1986
Bend Sinister
The Fall · 1986
Red Barked Tree
Wire · 2011
I Am Kurious Oranj
The Fall · 1988
Under Color of Official Right
ProtoMartyr · 2014
Happy?
Public Image Ltd. · 1987
Songs of the Free
Gang of Four · 1982
Plastic Box
Public Image Ltd. · 1999
Shift-Work
The Fall · 1991
Extricate
The Fall · 1990
Hard
Gang of Four · 1983
That What Is Not
Public Image Ltd. · 1992
Object 47
Wire · 2008
Send
Wire · 2003
Code: Selfish
The Fall · 1992
Reggie Song / Out of the Woods
Public Image Ltd. · 2012
The Infotainment Scan
The Fall · 1993
The Frenz Experiment
The Fall · 1988
Middle Class Revolt
The Fall · 1994
Reformation Post TLC
The Fall · 2007
Levitate
The Fall · 1997
Cerebral Caustic
The Fall · 1995
Mall
Gang of Four · 1991
Skinty Fia
Fontaines D.C. · 2022
The Unutterable
The Fall · 2000
Are You Are Missing Winner
The Fall · 2001
The Ideal Copy
Wire · 1987
A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck
Wire · 1988
It's Beginning to and Back Again
Wire · 1989
Manscape
Wire · 1990
The Drill
Wire · 1991
What Happens Next
Gang of Four · 2015
Total: From Joy Division to New Order
Joy Division · 2011
Content
Gang of Four · 2011
+−
Joy Division · 2010
Fall Heads Roll
The Fall · 2005
Return the Gift
Gang of Four · 2005
The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
The Fall · 2003
Hard / Solid Gold
Gang of Four · 2003
