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.