"Komakino" is a June 1980 single by the English post-punk band Joy Division. Like "Dead Souls" and "Transmission", the song was written between their first album Unknown Pleasures (1979) and second, final album Closer (1980).
"Komakino" is a June 1980 single by the English post-punk band Joy Division. Like "Dead Souls" and "Transmission", the song was written between their first album Unknown Pleasures (1979) and second, final album Closer (1980).
==Release== "Komakino" was released by Factory Records as a Gramophone record| flexi disc given away in select record shops. 50,000 copies were distributed in total, with the first 25,000 released on 20 June 1980, and an additional 25,000 on 14 November 1980. The single's B-sides, "Incubation" and "As You Said", are both instrumentals. The single was intended to be a free extra bundled with copies of Closer, but record stores would sell them separately. Reflecting on this, bassist Peter Hook stated: "The idea was, you’d buy Closer and get the flexi disc free, but the record stores didn’t like that. So they decided to sell the flexi discs. People bought the album, but the stores would still charge customers 50p extra or whatever for the flexi, the rotten devils."
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