Here it is…
“For Isolation they have the same instrumaentation, but it’s more withdrawn and estranged; a song they wrote only days before that reveals Numan and Foxx as true fools.”Review of Joy Division at the University of London, NME, February 1980
http://www.iancurtis.org/gigs/articles/16-02-1980.html However as I pointed out, this is
so long ago, and indeed it does seem as if Morley had a change of heart for in his list of 100 Greatest Albums of All Time at the back of his book ‘Words and Music’ we find;
John Foxx – Metamatic
And also from the same book in his list '121 Songs That Explain Why Kraftwerk are Kraftwerk & Just How & Where & When Their Influence Spread & Turned';
John Foxx – He’s A Liquid
I’ve a lot of time for Morley – there’s a million hack journalists out there but only one Paul Morley (and sadly a host of on-line imitators) but he’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
One of the most thought-provoking and painful books I’ve ever read was Morley’s book ‘Nothing’ on his father’s suicide and its effect on him (and probably explains a lot of his Joy Division reviews!)