Faith’s debt to Joy Division both enabled it and doomed it to derivative status.

Evidence

Affectively, the album is as improbably unwavering as Unknown Pleasures and Closer, and the Joy Division (anxiety of) influence hung over Faith like an acrid pall, the black source of its paradoxically entropic energy, what made it possible but also what would relegate it to the status of a revenant. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1060

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: New Order preserved Joy Division’s magic by refusing to understand it — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 120; Curtis’s suicide made the whole post-Joy Division generation deem itself inauthentic for surviving. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1060; Ian Curtis’s suicide made post-Joy Division musicians feel their survival was inauthentic — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1060