'Renascent' [London Records, 2026]

CD: UK 31.07.2026 (London Records, LMS1725758 / FACD 2.51)
LP: UK 31.07.2026 (yellow transparent vinyl, London Record, LMS1725759 / 5061017257592 / FACT 2.51)
LP: UK 31.07.2026 (Deluxe Version LP - alternative artwork / bottle green transparent vinyl, London Records, LMS1725760 / 5061017257608 / FACT 2.51S)
LP/flexi: UK 31.07.2026 (Rough Trade Exclusive LP - split purple / green LP with bonus flexi disc of ‘All They See is Fire’, London Records, LMS1725890 / FACT 2.51RT)
LP/DVD: UK 31.07.2026 (Special Boxed Edition LP - alternative artwork / heavyweight black vinyl / DVD / 4 art prints / poster / slipcase, London Records, LMS1725889 / 5061017258896 / FACT 2.51SP)
CS: UK 31.07.2026 (London Records, LMS1725861 / FACT 2.51C)

Tracklisting

Echoes In The Memory
Your Shadow At Morning
Time Present And Time Past
Agonistes
Liars
Vapour In A Matchbox
Your Shadow At Evening
Sargasso Sea
Scammer
For Friends Everywhere
All They See Is Fire (CD / digital bonus track / on flexi-disc with FACT 2.51RT)

Notes

Transcript of press release

'Renascent', the new album by The Durutti Column, is released on Friday 31 July 2026. The album will be available across a number of formats including digital, CD (both with the bonus track 'All They See is Fire') and transparent yellow vinyl. There will also be a limited edition vinyl featuring alternative artwork, pressed on bottle green vinyl and featuring an oversized booklet. The official Durutti Column store will host some very limited editions including a cassette, and a very special edition slipcase version of the album (limited to 1,000 copies worldwide) with alternative artwork, heavyweight black vinyl, a DVD with unique visualisers for every track, 4 art prints and a folded poster. Rough Trade have their own exclusive edition of the album (limited to 500 copies), a split purple / green vinyl version, with a bonus flexi-disc of 'All They See is Fire'.

Intricate yet unflashy, melancholic yet quietly ecstatic, The Durutti Column have always sounded​indelibly, like themselves. Across five decades they have moved fluidly between indie chamber music, modern classical suites, sampledelia, dance experimentation, and flamenco-tinged pop, while remaining unmistakably cornerstone by Vini Reilly's delicate, expressive guitar voice. Now, 46 years after their debut and 16 after their last album, The Durutti Column (a trio of Vini with longstanding drummer / percussionist Bruce Mitchell and producer / instrumentalist Keir Stewart) return with Renascent, a new album that both honours their past and reaffirms their enduring creative vitality.

From their arrival in 1980 with The Return of the Durutti Column, released on Tony Wilson's Factory Records, The Durutti Column stood apart. While post-punk leaned into the urban and the abrasive, Reilly's music was pastoral, romantic, and introspective. In the decades since, that once singular sensibility has quietly reshaped the musical landscape. In recent years a new generation of artists as diverse as Frank Ocean, The Avalanches, Yung Lean, Youth Lagoon and Mark William Lewis have declared or demonstrated Durutti's influence. In the past year Blood Orange sampled 'Sing to Me' for 2025's single 'The Field', and the band was cited by Harry Styles as a key influence on 2026's Kiss All the Time. Disco Occasionally.

Styles has involved the band in his curation of this year's Meltdown Festival, where they will be celebrated with a special concert For Vini: A Tribute to The Durutti Column on 17 June 2026. Renascent producer Keir Stewart (guitar, bass, samples, keys) will be joined by Durutti collaborators Liz Rossi (violin, piano), Caolfhionn Rose (vocals, piano) and Sam Morris (French horn) as they interpret key moments across the band's 6-decade career.

In recent years songs by The Durutti Column have surfaced in major cultural touchstones, from television and gaming soundtracks to high fashion runways. Once existing beyond trends, they now find themselves rediscovered, their work resonating with audiences encountering it anew. Renascent, meaning "being reborn, reviving, springing up afresh", captures both this renewed visibility and a deeper artistic resurgence.

That influence has only grown in recent years. Their music has surfaced in major cultural touchstones, from television and gaming soundtracks to high fashion runways. Once existing beyond trends, The Durutti Column now find themselves rediscovered, their work resonating with audiences encountering it anew. Renascent, meaning "being reborn, reviving, springing up afresh," captures both this renewed visibility and a deeper artistic resurgence.

The album marks the group's first collection of new material since 2010's A Paean to Wilson. It also signals a symbolic return to origins, carrying a Factory Too catalogue number in collaboration with Oliver Wilson, continuing the legacy of Factory Records. Visually, Renascent reunites the band with original Factory design collaborators, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir of 8vo, whose artwork mirrors the music's balance of modernist precision and romantic warmth through rich, sensuous color.

Musically, Renascent exists in a dialogue between past and present. Tracks such as 'Time Present and Time Past' evoke a cyclical sense of motion: forward-looking yet reflective. Reilly's improvisational approach remains central: spontaneous, intuitive, and resistant to formal constraints. "Every single piece of music writes itself," he notes, and the album's recordings preserve that immediacy. Pieces like 'Vapour in a Matchbox' exemplify this ethos, transforming fleeting inspiration into compositions of lasting emotional depth.

Longtime collaborator Bruce Mitchell recalls the instinctive nature of working with Reilly: ideas captured quickly, often in a single take, before they can be overworked. Producer and bassist Keir Stewart expands on this philosophy, emphasizing freedom and presence; capturing creativity in its rawest moment rather than refining it into something overly deliberate.

This approach shaped the making of Renascent, an album assembled over several years in an organic fashion. Recording sessions often took place informally, sometimes in Reilly's own kitchen, with minimal equipment and an emphasis on immediacy. The result is a body of work that feels both intimate and expansive, grounded in the moment yet resonant over time.

A defining feature of the album is its spirit of renewal through reinterpretation. 'For Friends Everywhere' revisits 'For Belgian Friends' (from 1980's A Factory Quartet) has been rendered renascent by producer Keir Stewart's studio needlework. Rearranged as an orchestral octet it transforms a long-standing live favorite into a richly textured piece imbued with reflection and emotional weight. It stands as both a tribute to their past and a continuation into the future.

For Reilly, "empathy is the essence of humanity, if you lose that ability to empathise, it's the deadening of your own soul." Renascent deepens that tradition, with many of its pieces shaped by personal connections and human stories. That empathy is also expressed in the love that Stewart and Mitchell have put into realising Reilly's vision. "Vin's songs are constantly surprising," says Mitchell, "you want to keep on listening to them over and over again." On hearing the completed Renascent Mitchell says: "it's like a child that leaves home for a long time and then they return and you love them all the more all over again."

This empathetic impulse runs through the new album: the first track 'Liars' consists of Reilly repeating "I am sorry, I love you". It's also evident in Renascent being among the most collaborative albums Durutti have made – and not just because of the increased input of Mitchell and particularly of Stewart. Reilly's Manchester neighbour, folktronica artist Caoilfhionn Rose sings on the stately, yearning 'Agonistes' and sings and plays piano on the gorgeous, hymn-like 'Sargasso Sea'.

Despite the passage of time, Reilly's artistic philosophy remains rooted in motion and response. Creativity, for him, is an ongoing process; reactive, immediate, and alive. That sense of momentum carries through Renascent, an album that does not seek to recapture the past but to reanimate it, allowing it to evolve in new and unexpected ways.

Few people are more unpredictable than Reilly, who says, "From the moment we're born we're never ever instigative, only ever reactive. It's like Newton's law of motion, if you're not pushing against anything, you lose momentum." With Renascent The Durutti Column have created an album that feels both timeless and newly awakened; an understated yet powerful statement from an artist still in pursuit of the moment.

The Durutti Column are Renascent.

'Vini Reilly' [London Records LP, LMS17258624]

LP: UK 31.07.2026 (London Records, LC77554 / FACT 244)

Tracklisting

1. Love No More
2. Pol In G
3. Opera I
4. People's Pleasure Park
5. Red Square
6. Finding The Sea
7. Otis
8. William B
9. They Work Every Day
10. Opera II
11. Homage To Catalonea
12. Requiem Again
13. My Country

Notes

Also available on 1CD which has the same tracklisting as CD1 in the 2024 35th Anniversary edition.

The Return of The Durutti Column 45th Anniversary Edition [London Records LP]

LP: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725576, regular edition]
LP: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725583, sandpaper edition]
LP: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725584, Rough Trade Essentials Edition w/ Black & White Marble Vinyl]

Tracklisting

Side One

1. Sketch For Summer
2. Requiem for a Father
3. Katherine
4. Conduct

Side Two

1. Untitled
2. Beginning
3. Jazz
4. Sketch for Winter
5. Collette
6. In ‘D’
7. Lips That Would Kiss
8. Madeleine

Notes

2025 marks 45 years since the release of The Durutti Column’s landmark album The Return Of The Durutti Column. To celebrate, London Records announces a very special reissue of the seminal Manchester band’s 1980 debut, set for release on 28 November 2025 and available for pre-order now at the official Durutti Column online store.

The Return Of The Durutti Column remains one of Factory's most enduring and important works: fragile, otherworldly, and quietly radical. Produced by Martin Hannett, it showcased Vini Reilly’s distinctive, delicate guitar work against Hannett’s ambient textures, post-punk reverb and glacial electronics.

The 45th Anniversary Edition is available in several formats:

The Deluxe Sandpaper LP, replicating the rare first pressing and limited to 500 numbered copies worldwide. Each sleeve has been spray-painted by hand with the original catalogue number, FACT 14. This edition includes a unique printed inner sleeve featuring an essay by Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, housed inside a protective outer cover.

The Standard Edition LP, replicating the second pressing, commonly known as the ‘Dufy’ sleeve (after a featured triptych of images by French painter Jean Dufy), with the outer sleeve printed on the same textured card as the 1980 version. The inner sleeve features an essay by Durutti Column/Factory Records expert James Nice. Rough Trade will stock a unique pressing of this edition as part of their Essentials range, pressed on black-and-white marbled vinyl and limited to 500 copies (with bonus sandpaper postcard) from here.

All vinyl editions have been remastered from the original source tapes, recently rediscovered in a Stockport warehouse, and cut at half-speed for maximum audio fidelity. The tracklisting includes the original album plus 'Untitled' (featured on later iterations), alongside two further tracks: 'Lips That Would Kiss' and 'Madeleine', both originally issued on Factory Records’ Belgian sister label Factory Benelux in autumn 1980.

The first 500 orders from the official store received an exclusive bonus CD, Lost Songs and Sketches, featuring early live recordings and a rare 1981 audio interview with Vini Reilly.

'Vini Reilly' [London Records, Record Store Day 2024]

LP: UK 20.04.2024 (London Records, LMS1725126 / Fact 244)

Tracklisting

Side One

1. Love No More
2. Pol in G
3. Act I Opera
4. People’s Pleasure Park
5. Finding the Sea

Side Two

1. Otis
2. They Work Every Day
3. Act II
4. Opera
5. Homage to Catalonea
6. My Country

Notes

35th Anniversary edition of the seminal 1989 album. The album is presented in the famous (and as to now unseen) ‘rejected’ sleeve by 8vo. Produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries, New Order). Vinyl mastered by Peter Beckmann at Technology Works. Numbered, limited edition (2000 copies) exclusive to Record Store Day 2024.

Greetings from S.G.V. The Greetings LP [RSD 2024, Lantern Records]

LP: IT 20.04.2024 (Lantern Records/Materiali Sonori, LANR045)

Tracklisting / Credits

Side A

BLAINE L. REININGER - GREETINGS ONE

1. JAPANESE DREAM
2. BISMALLAH

Performed & composed by BLAINE L. REININGER
Clarinet on BISMALLAH by STEVEN BROWN
Engineered by FRANK LIEVAART for SOUNDWORKS - BRUXELLES

STOCKHOLM MONSTERS - GREETINGS TWO

1. PARTY LINE
2. MILITIA
3. DUMBSTRUCK

Performed by

TONI FRANCE - KARL FRANCE - JOHN RHODES - SHAN HIRA

Recorded at SUITE 16 STUDIOS - ROCHDALE
Engineered by SHAN HIRA & C. J.
Produced & composed by STOCKHOLM MONSTERS

Side B

THE DURUTTI COLUMN - GREETINGS THREE

1. FLORENCE SUNSET (V. Reilly) 5:50
2. ALL THAT LOVE AND MATHS CAN DO (V. Reilly - J. Metcalfe) 3:33
3. SAN GIOVANNI DAWN (V. Reilly) 3:55
4. FOR FRIENDS IN ITALY (V. Reilly) 4:35
Performed by

VINI REILLY - JOHN METCALFE - BRUCE MITCHELL
Recorded at CRIMSON STUDIO - MANCHESTER
All songs written and produced by VINI REILLY
Except 'ALL THAT LOVE...' by VINI REILLY and JOHN METCALFE

Notes

GREETING5 FROM S.G.V.

Originally Released by Materiali Sonori in 1987
® 2024 Lantern Records
www.lanterneditions.com

LANTERN REC materiali sonori

Project by GIAMPIERO BIGAZZI

"Overdue re-issue of the first three 12” in the record series dedicated to musicians who took part to the Greetings festival. It happened in 1987, it was time for Materiali Sonori 10th anniversary, an historic goal for the label/collective born in the small Tuscany village of San Giovanni Valdarno. The small celebration brought to life a box collecting the first 3 Eps of the Greetings from S.G.V. series. The series was intended as symbolic sound postcard, made with various musicians with whom the collective label shared a path, whether small or long. The Durutti Column, The Stockholm Monsters and Blaine R. Reininger (Tuxedomoon) are among the artist who took part to the project, here collected for the very first time. Lantern is pleased to pay tribute to the work of people whose passion, attitude, commitment and genuineness inspired this adventure still true to these days. “Our presence in this small tuscan town is almost casual… physically we were born and grew up here, while our hearts and our minds were travelling to Paris, Berlin, Brussels, New York or London”" (Giampiero Bigazzi of Materiali Sonori, taken from the original inner sleeves notes).

Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids [London Records]

CD: UK 30.06.23 (London Records, LMS5521915)
2LP: UK 30.06.23 (London Records, LMS5521916)

CD Tracklisting

1. Organ Donor
2. Pigeon
3. I B Yours
4. Twenty Trees
5. Abuse
6. Drinking Song
7. Sing To Me
8. My Last Kiss
9. For Rachel
10. Highfield Choir
11. Epilogue
12. It's Your Life, Babe
13. Kiss of Def
14. In the City
15. New Order Tribute
16. Drinking Song (version)

2LP Tracklisting

LP one

A1 Organ Donor
A2 Pigeon
A3 I B Yours
A4 Twenty Trees

B5 Abuse
B6 Drinking Song
B7 Sing To Me

LP two

C8 My Last Kiss
C9 For Rachel
C10 Highfield Choir
C11 Epilogue

D12 It's Your Life, Babe
D13 Kiss of Def
D14 In the City
D15 New Order Tribute
D16 Drinking Song (version)

Notes

25th Anniversary edition of Time Was GIGANTIC... When we were kids by The Durutti Column, featuring expanded artwork by original designers 8vo, new liner notes by James Nice and 5 bonus tracks of rarities. An A3 reproduction of the 1998 Manchester Cathedral show for In The City was made available to coincide with this release and bundled in certain packages.

The album is available via:

https://thedurutticolumn.tmstor.es

"It sounds so sweet: Reilly's shimmering guitar spinning merry cartwheels behind Eley Rudge's angelic Harriet Wheeler warble, or basking lazily in pools of ambient calm. It's a smooth as porcelain, as mannered as a lily pond and as forgettable as your last breath."

- NME

Treatise on the Steppenwolf + Human Avatars (FBN 63 Record Store Day)

2LP (UK, 22.04.2023, Factory Benelux, FBN 63)

Tracklisting

A1. A Beautiful Thought (Pt 1)
A2. Harry Dreams The Dream
A3. A Wolf Of The Steppes
A4. Interlude
A5. The Title On The Cover

B1. Divided
B2. Magic Theatre
B3. Soul Track
B4. The Mothers And The Fathers
B5. A Beautiful Thought (Pt 2)

C1. Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 1)
C2. Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 2)
C3. Human Avatars (Pt 3)

D1. Human Avatars (Pt 1)
D2. Human Avatars (Pt 2)

Notes

Factory Benelux presents the very first vinyl edition of the only soundtrack album recorded by The Durutti Column. A limited edition of 1000 copies on 180gm black vinyl for Record Store Day 2023.

Treatise on the Steppenwolf is a soundtrack to the performance piece of the same name by experimental theatre group 12 Stars, written and directed by Gerard McInulty (of fellow Factory band The Wake), first staged in Glasgow in May 2003. Freely adapted from the celebrated counter-culture novel by Hermann Hesse, the performance is a portrait a divided character in an ongoing state of conflict.

"Steppenwolf was something I'd read recently and when we approached Durutti Column with the idea it turned out they were interested too," explained McInulty. "People have described their music as ambient, although that's a description they don't care much for. It's certainly atmospheric and there's something about their sunny-sounding guitar that seemed appropriate to a book that, although published in 1927, didn't become popular in America until the 1960s."

This expanded vinyl edition combines the studio recordings of the 12 pieces performed live by The Durutti Column during the Glasgow run, along with 3 long and previously unreleased tracks from the Human Avatars art installation at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry in 2005.

Newly mastered for vinyl by Peter Beckman at TechnologyWorks, this limited Record Store Day edition also features new gatefold artwork by Howard Wakefield.

Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue - Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979–89

4CD (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, EDSL0133)
7LP deluxe signed (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, DEMRECBOX78X)
7LP regular (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, DEMRECBOX78)
2LP (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, DEMREC1081)

Tracklisting (4CD)

CD 1

1. I Should Have Known Better – Wire
2. A Better Home In The Phantom Zone – Bill Nelson’s Red Noise
3. Back To Nature – Magazine
4. Complicated Game (Steven Wilson 2014 Mix) - XTC
5. Careering – Public Image Limited
6. The Raven – The Stranglers
7. Puppet Life – Punishment Of Luxury
8. Astradyne (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) – Ultravox
9. Contract – Gang Of Four
10. I Travel (Extended Version) – Simple Minds
11. Sketch For Summer – The Durutti Column
12. Health And Efficiency - This Heat
13. Burning Car – John Foxx
14. Cognitive Dissonance (Steven Wilson 2022 Mix) – Robert Fripp And The League of Gentlemen
15. Fatal Day – In Camera

CD 2

1. I Can't Escape Myself - The Sound
2. The Eternal - Joy Division
3. Big Empty Field - Swell Maps
4. Enemies - Art Nouveau
5. The Joy Circuit - Gary Numan
6. The Gospel Comes To New Guinea - 23 Skidoo
7. All My Colours - Echo And The Bunnymen
8. Ghost Town (Extended Version) - The Specials
9. They All Run After The Carving Knife - New Musik
10. The Him - New Order
11. White Car In Germany (Single Edit) - The Associates
12. Hit - Section 2513. Sealand - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
14. Talking Drum - Japan
15. Faith - The Cure

CD 3

1. Three Dancers (Steven Wilson 2021 Mix) - Twelfth Night
2. Airwaves - Thomas Dolby
3. Are You Ready? - Crispy Ambulance
4. The Outsider - Rupert Hine
5. Knife Slits Water - A Certain Ratio
6. Memories Fade - Tears For Fears
7. Patient - Peter Hammill
8. Donimo - Cocteau Twins
9. In A Waiting Room - Mr And Mrs Smith And Mr Drake
10. Close (To The Edit) - The Art Of Noise
11. Dalis Car - Dalis Car
12. Rawhide - Scott Walker
13. Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian
14. Dream Within A Dream – Propaganda

CD 4

1. Waking The Witch - Kate Bush
2. Ivy And Neet - This Mortal Coil
3. Beehead (7” Version) - Perennial Divide
4. This Corrosion – The Sisters Of Mercy
5. Ascension - O Yuki Conjugate
6. No Motion - Dif Juz
7. Gutter Busting – SLAB!
8. Murderers, The Hope Of Women - Momus
9. The Host Of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance
10. R.E.S. - Cardiacs
11. Good Morning Beautiful - The The
12. Omega Amigo - The Shamen
13. Night Sky, Sweet Earth - No-Man
14. The 3rd Time We Opened The Capsule - Kitchens Of Distinction

Notes

Compilation assembled by acclaimed musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, Steven Wilson. The collection explores the creativity, experimentation and progressive spirit of alternative British music from 1979-1989. Features 'Sketch for Summer' by The Durutti Column. Other artists include Wire, XTC, The Stranglers, Ultravox, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, Tears For Fears, and many more.

Circuses and Bread (Factory Benelux, FBN 154 / FBN 154 CD)

CD (UK, 29.01.2021, Factory Benelux, FBN 154 CD)
2LP (UK, 26.03.2021, Factory Benelux, FBN 154)

CD Tracklisting

1. For Pauline
2. Tomorrow
3. Dance II
4. For Hilary
5. Street Fight
6. Royal Infirmary
7. Black Horses
8. Dance I
9. Blind Elevator Girl - Osaka
10. All That Love and Maths Can Do
11. Florence Sunset
12. San Giovanni Dawn
13. For Friends In Italy
14. The Aftermath
15. Our Lady of the Angels (Stu 'Jammer' James Mix)

2LP Tracklisting

Side One

A1. For Pauline
A2. Tomorrow
A3. Dance II
A4. For Hilary
A5. Street Fight
B1. Royal Infirmary
B2. Black Horses
B3. Dance I

Side Two

C1. Blind Elevator Girl – Osaka
C2. The Aftermath
C3. Our Lady of the Angels (Stu 'Jammer' James Mix)
D1. Florence Sunset
D2. All That Love and Maths Can Do
D3. San Giovanni Dawn
D4. For Friends In Italy

Notes

Factory Benelux presents remastered CD and 2LP coloured vinyl editions of Circuses and Bread, the seventh studio album by The Durutti Column. Originally released by Factory Benelux and Factory in 1986, the original 9 tracks have now been expanded with 6 bonus pieces.

The cover art retains the original design by 8vo. The remastered vinyl set is housed in gatefold sleeve, with liner notes and rare band images.

Self-produced by Vini Reilly at Strawberry and Revolution studios, the album saw Durutti playing as a quartet, with Reilly on guitar, vocals and keyboards, Bruce Mitchell in drums and percussion, John Metcalfe (viola) and Tim Kellett (trumpet).

"The music ends up being very simple," Vini told NME. "People can dismiss it as being very simplistic, easy listening or whatever. It's very honest, it's very personal. People say it's ambient, and it's like Eno. I don't like that, because the music's made to be listened to, it's not wallpaper."

Of extended piece Blind Elevator Girl – Osaka, Vini adds: "The music really writes itself. For example, we’re in Osaka, in Japan, getting in this elevator. It"s very crowded with all these Japanese businessmen talking about distribution deals, and going on and on. On this lift was a beautiful Japanese girl, in an immaculate uniform. Each floor we arrived at, she's starting talking Japanese, obviously saying what was on each floor. We went higher and higher, and finally we get to the top. And then, sort of walking out of the elevator, I suddenly realised she was blind... It got to me, this girl. It was incredible. So maybe a day later, I was thinking about that, and the whole tune came out. And every single piece of music is like that."

Bonus tracks include Italian-only EP Greetings Three, scarce compilation track The Aftermath, and a previously unreleased working version of 1987 single Our Lady of the Angels produced by the late Stuart 'Jammer' James.

Cover art retains the original design by 8vo. The remastered set is housed in 6 panel card digipack, with liner notes and rare band images. A double vinyl version of FBN 154 will be issued in March 2021.

More information at factorybenelux.com.

Sex and Death (Factory Benelux, FBN 201 / FBN 201 CD)

2CD: UK 23.04.2021 (Factory Benelux, FBN 201 CD)
2LP: UK 23.04.2021 (Factory Benelux, FBN 201)

2CD Tracklisting

CD1

1. Anthony
2. The Rest of My Life
3. For Colette
4. The Next Time
5. Beautiful Lies
6. My Irascible Friend
7. Believe In Me
8. Fermina
9. Where I Should Be
10. Fado
11. Madre Mio
12. Blue Period

CD2

1. Believe In Me (Mix 1)
2. You Mess Me Up
3. My Only Love (aka Duet)
4. Believe In Me (Mix 2)
5. Picking Guitar for the Shrimp
6. Get Me to the Beat On Time
7. Jumble Drums, Growling Bass and the Whammy Bar
8. For Cameron de la Isla
9. War Torn
10. The Celestial Bar

2LP Tracklisting

LP1

A1. Anthony
A2. The Rest of My Life
A3. For Colette
A4. The Next Time
B1. Beautiful Lies
B2. My Irascible Friend
B3. Believe In Me
B4. Fermina

LP2

C1. Where I Should Be
C2. Fado
C3. Madre Mio
C4. Blue Period
C5. War Torn
D1. Picking Guitar for the Shrimp
D2. The Celestial Bar
D3. Jumble Drums, Growling Bass and the Whammy Bar
D4. For Cameron de la Isla

Notes

Factory Benelux presents expanded double CD and double vinyl editions of Sex and Death, the 11th studio album by The Durutti Column.

Originally released in 1994 on CD only, the album has now been re-mastered with bonus tracks and appears on vinyl for the very first time in a coloured vinyl edition limited to 1500 copies. The vinyl edition is housed in a gatefold vinyl sleeve. Disc 1 is pressed in blue vinyl, and disc 2 in silver.

The 2CD edition is remastered with rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks.

The writing and recording of Sex and Death closed an uncertain period for Vini Reilly and the group following the collapse of Factory Records in 1992. Factory founder Tony Wilson remained in post as manager of the band, but Sex and Death would be their last album with producer Stephen Street, famed for his work with Morrissey, The Smiths and Blur.

Writer and master guitarist Vini Reilly remained philosophical: "People say the Durutti Column is this or that. I don't care, so long as we make good music. There's screaming feedback on some tracks, heavy metal guitar, Spanish picking. It's not just this ethereal trip. Don't listen to the form, never listen to the form. Listen to the content."

Stand-out tracks include Anthony (dedicated to Wilson), The Rest of My Life and believe In Me. Guest musicians include viola player John Metcalfe, vocalist Ruth-Ann Boyle (later to form hitmakers Olive with Tim Kellett), programmer Martin Jackson (Magazine, Swing Out Sister) and bassist Peter Hook, then on furlough from New Order post-Republic.

Of the 10 bonus tracks on CD2, 6 are previously unreleased, having been retrieved from a long-lost DAT tape located in Tony Wilson's personal archive. The other 4 are album outtakes previously only available as an online download. All tracks have been newly re-mastered in 2020 by Peter Beckmann and Technology Works.

A limited edition 2LP coloured vinyl edition is also available housed in a gatefold vinyl sleeve and limited to 1500 copies.

Cosmic - St Valentin's Day selected by Daniele Baldelli [2LP]

2LP: IT 21.01.21 (Use Vinyl Records, UVR 10521)

Tracklisting

Side A

1. The Durutti Column - Sketch For Summer
2. Nef - Apparition À L'endroit
3. Francesco Messina - Harem
4. Peter Baumann - The Third Site

Side B

1. Gabor Szabo - Keep Smilin'
2. Herb Alpert - Love Is
3. J.J. Cale - Ride Me High
4. Neil Larsen - Sudden Samba

Side C

1. Jorge Ben - O Dia Que O Sol Declarou O Seu Amor Pela Terra
2. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Ye-Me-Le
3. Zulu Gang - I Got A Magic Feeling Making Love
4. Naná Vasconcelos - Rekebra

Side D

1. D.C. LaRue - I Don't Want To Loose You
2. Sammy Gordon & The Hip Huggers - Making Love
3. Le Pamplemousse - Gimmie What You Got
4. Sea Level - Sneakers (Fifty-Four)

Notes

This record celebrates the very popular and crowded St. Valentine's party held on 14 Feb at the "Cosmic" discotheque near Verona where Daniele Baldelli was the resident DJ.

'Sketch for Summer' by The Durutti Column is Track 1 Side 1.

Available from afrocosmicshop.com and other retailers. 

Rebellion [LP blue vinyl, Demon, DEMREC743]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 743)

Tracklisting

4 Sophia
Longsight Romance
Geh Cak Af En Yam
The Fields Of Athenry
Overlord Part One
Falling
Voluntary Arrangement
Mello Part One
Mello Part Two
Protest Song
Meschugana

Notes

Single LP on blue vinyl. Pressed on 140g blue vinyl, housed in a printed inner sleeve.

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Keep Breathing [2LP red vinyl, Demon, DEMREC744]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 744)

Tracklisting

LP1

Nina

It's Wonderful

Maggie

Helen

Neil

Big Hole

LP2

Let Me Tell You Something

Lunch

Gun

Tuesday

Agnus Dei

Waiting

Notes

Pressed on two 140g red vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Love In The Time Of Recession [2LP amber vinyl, Demon, DEMREC745]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 745) 

Tracklisting

LP1

In Memory Of Anthony

Rant

More Rainbows

I’m Alive

For Bruce

Painting

LP2

Wild Beat Tamed

Rainbow Maker

My Poppy

Loser

Lock-Down

Notes

Pressed on two 140g translucent amber vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Someone Else's Party [2LP clear vinyl, Demon, DEMREC746]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 746) 

Tracklisting 

Side one 

Love Is A Friend

Spanish Lament

Somewhere

Somebody’s Party

Requiem For My Mother

Remember

Side two

Vigil

Blue

No More Hurt

Spasmic Fairy

American View

Drinking Time

Woman

Goodbye

Notes

Pressed on two 140g clear vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Idiot Savants [Demon, DEMREC658]

LP: UK 29/08/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 658) 

Tracklisting

Better Must Come

Interleukin 2 (For Anthony)

Please Let Me Sleep 

2 Times Nice 

No Last Surprise 

Gathering Dust 

Whisper To The Wind 

That Blows My Name Away (For Rachel)

Notes 

Single LP on white vinyl released for Record Store Day 2020 by Demon on 29 August 2020.

Reissue of original Idiot Savants album on Artful/Fulfill from 2007 and the first ever release on vinyl. 

From Brussels With Love [Les Disques du Crépuscule, TWI 007 & 008]

CS: UK 10/2020 (Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 007 & 008)
2LP: UK 10/2020 (Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 007 & 008)
2CD: UK 10/2020 (Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 007 & 008)

Tracklistings

Cassette + 2LP

1. John Foxx - A Jingle *1
2. Thomas Dolby - Airwaves
3. Repetition - Stranger
4. Harold Budd - Children On the Hill
5. The Durutti Column - Sleep Will Come
6. Martin Hannett - The Music Room
7. The Names - Cat
8. Michael Nyman - A Walk Through H
9. Brian Eno - Interview
9A. Phill Niblock - A Third Trombone
10. John Foxx - A Jingle *2
11. Jeanne Moreau - Interview
12. Richard Jobson - Armoury Show
13. Bill Nelson - The Shadow Garden
14. The Durutti Column - Piece For An Ideal
15. A Certain Ratio - Felch (live in NYC)
16. Kevin Hewick and New Order - Haystack
17. Radio Romance - Etrange Affinité
18. Gavin Bryars - White's SS
19. Der Plan - Mein Freunde
20. Gilbert and Lewis - Twist Up
21. John Foxx - A Jingle *3

2CD earbook

Note: CD1 tracklist is same as cassette/2xLP

CD2

1. John Foxx - A Jingle *4
2. John Foxx - Mr No
3. Bill Nelson - Dada Guitare
4. The Durutti Column - For Belgian Friends
5. Richard Jobson + Tuxedomoon - Orpheé
6. Aksak Maboul - DBB (Double Bind Baby)
7. Karel Goyvaerts - Ach Golgotha
8. Marguerite Duras - Interview
9. Polyphonic Size - Nagasaki Mon Amour
10. Marine - Life In Reverse
11. Michael Nyman - Mozart
12. Gavin Bryars - White's SS (unedited)
13. The Names - Nightshift
14. Repetition - A Still Reflex
15. Digital Dance - Treatment
16. Josef K - Sorry For Laughing
17. A Certain Ratio - And Then Again (live)
18. John Foxx - A Jingle *5

Available to pre-order in various formats/bundles from Les Disques du Crépuscule.

Notes

Les Disques du Crépuscule 40th anniversary editions of iconic compilation From Brussels With Love. Bearing the catalogue number TWI 007, From Brussels With Love was the very first release on Crépuscule back in November 1980, and now returns in 2020 on cassette, gatefold 2xLP (coloured vinyl), and 2xCD hardback 60-page 10-inch square earbook.

Originally released as a cassette with a 16-page booklet packaged in a PVC wallet, From Brussels With Love featured 21 exclusive tracks from the international avant-garde and new wave, as well as contributions from the celebrated Factory Records roster. Then, as now, the featured artists include A Certain Ratio, Gavin Bryars, Harold Budd, Thomas Dolby, Dome, The Durutti Column, John Foxx, Martin Hannett, Richard Jobson, The Names, Bill Nelson, Kevin Hewick + New Order, Michael Nyman and Der Plan.

Running for 78 minutes, the cosmopolitan 'cassette journal' was curated by Michel Duval, Annik Honoré and Wim Mertens, and also includes extended interviews with Brian Eno and legendary French film actress Jeanne Moreau. The cover art is by Jean-François Octave, with additional artwork in the booklet by Benoît Hennebert, Marc Borgers and Claude Stassart.

Vini Reilly [Factory Benelux, 2LP Record Store Day, FBN 244]

2LP: UK 18.04.2020 (Factory Benelux, FBN 244)

[NB: Record Store Day 2020 delayed due to Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak]

Tracklisting

LP1

A1. Love No More
A2. Pol in G
A3. Opera I
A4. People's Pleasure Park
A5. Finding the Sea

B1. Otis
B2. They Work Every Day
B3. Opera II
B4. Homage to Catalonea
B5. Requiem Again
B6. My Country

LP2

C1. Red Square
C2. William B
C3. Dry
C4. Paradise Passage Road
C5. My Country (Monarchy Mix)
D1. Otis (live)
D2. English Landscape Tradition (live)
D3. Finding the Sea (live)
D4. Bordeaux (live)

7" single

E1. I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong
F1. For Steven Patrick

Notes

Factory Benelux presents an expanded double vinyl edition of Vini Reilly, the acclaimed seventh studio album originally released by Factory Records in 1989. Just 1000 copies have been pressed for Record Store Day on 18 April 2020.

Produced by Vini Reilly and Stephen Street (The Smiths, Morrissey, Blur), the original working title of the Vini Reilly album was The Durutti Column Sampler. "People describe them as found samples and found voices," explained Vini at the time. "I always build up a catalogue of interesting loops and voice samples and stuff. Then I forget where I got them from a lot of the time, which is quite convenient... A lot of the time I manipulate the sample anyway, so it's singing my tune, rather than the original tune.

Stand-out tracks include Otis, Love No More and My Country. "The tune always comes from playing the guitar, added Vini. ‘As soon as I pick a guitar up I'll come up with a tune. I don't know whether it’s good or bad - but there's always a tune there.

The sleeve itself samples Bob Dylan circa Highway 61 Revisited, showcasing an iconic portrait by Mark Warner. Indeed much about the album flirts with mainstream culture, being a deliberate attempt to position Reilly as a 'pop' artist following his chart-topping collaboration with Morrissey on Viva Hate. This collaboration is further explored on the bonus 7" single (pressed in crystal clear vinyl), which features rare outtake I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong and exquisite homage For Steven Patrick.

Bonus tracks on this 2020 double-disc remaster include several never before issued on vinyl, including William B and Red Square from the extended CD version of Vini Reilly, plus all four tracks from pristine performance CD WOMAD Live. Recorded at the WOMAD Festival in Cornwall in August 1988, the core Durutti duo of Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell are here augmented by Andy Connell on keys and Chinese opera singer Liu Sola.

See also: Vini Reilly [Factory Benelux, FBN 244 CD]

Fidelity [Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2LP coloured vinyl, TWI 976]

LP: UK 10.01.2020 (Les Disques du Crépuscule)

Tracklisting

A1. Fidelity
A2. For Suzanne
A3. G+T

B1. Future Perfect
B2. Abstract of Expression
B3. Remember Me

C1. Sanko
C2. Grace
C3. Storm for Steve

D1. Guitar for Mother
D2. My Only Love
D3. The New Fidelity

Notes

Les Disques du Crépuscule presents the first ever vinyl release of Fidelity, the 1996 studio album by cult Manchester ensemble The Durutti Column.

Originally released by Crépuscule on CD only in April 1996, Fidelity featured 10 tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, with occasional guest vocals by Eley Rudge. In addition to Vini's trademark guitar stylings, the album showcased sleek electronic textures and programmed beats.

This 2019 vinyl re-master features two bonus tracks: My Only Love was originally released in 1995 on a covermount CD with a specialist guitar magazine, while experimental piece The New Fidelity was issued on a Portuguese compilation album from 1992 called Hare, Hunter, Field.

Limited to just 1000 copies, this special double disc edition pressed in clear and blue vinyl features brand new cover artwork by Crepuscule design director Benoit Hennebert, based on a portrait by Vini Reilly of filmmaker Carol Morley.

More info: Les Disques du Crépuscule Mailorder

FACTORY: Communications 1978-92 [8LP silver vinyl]

LP: UK 08.11.19 (Rhino)
Download: UK 08.11.19 (Rhino)

Tracklisting

Sketch For Summer (Side 2, 1979-80)
Messidor (Side 5, 1981)
Without Mercy (Duet) (Side 10, 1984-85)
Home (Side 15, 1990-91)

Notes

The Durutti Column have four tracks on this 8LP silver vinyl box set reissue of the 'FACTORY: Communications 1978-1992' compilation album which surveys the entire 15-year history of the iconic label, with a grand total 63 tracks spread over 16 sides of newly remastered vinyl albums. As well as classic cuts from New Order, Joy Division, Minny Pops, Happy Mondays, Electronic, A Certain Ratio and Section 25, this definitive overview delves deep into Factory's rich and occasionally wayward recorded catalogue, with X-O-Dus, Marcel King, 52nd Street, Quando Quango, Northside, James, The Railway Children, Crawling Chaos.

Originally issued as a 4CD box set in 2009, Communications 1978-92 is curated by Jon Savage, with booklet notes by Paul Morley and James Nice.

Lift lid box with 8 x 180gram silver heavyweight vinyl and 40 page booklet, previously released on CD. Limited run of 500 units.

Previous title was 'Factory Records: Communications 1978-92' but the "Records" bit has been dropped and some capital letters added.

Previous 4CD version came as digital download with extra track 'Otis' (which did not feature on any of the CDs).

More information: rhino.co.uk