Durutti Column, The: The Return Of The Durutti Column - 45th Anniversary Edition (2xCD)

The Return Of The Durutti Column marked the beginning of a five-decade career in which The Durutti Column quietly became one of Manchester’s most influential acts.

The album is a hauntingly intimate debut from Vini Reilly: fragile, otherworldly, and quietly radical. With producer Martin Hannett’s signature studio alchemy, Reilly’s delicate, filigree guitar work is wrapped in ambient haze, post-punk reverb, and glacial electronics. The result is a sparse yet emotionally saturated soundscape, where minimalism meets affecting atmospherics.

To mark the album’s 45th anniversary, London Records presents new editions, remastered from the original tapes (the first edition to do so since 1980) and cut at half-speed for vinyl.

This edition comes with new liner notes by The Durutti Column author James Nice, author of ‘The Durutti Column: A Life of Riley’ and ‘Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records’.

Tall Book format Hardback version.

Disc One

1. Sketch For Summer
2. Requiem For A Father
3. Katharine
4. Conduct
5. Untitled
6. Beginning
7. Jazz
8. Sketch For Winter
9. Collette
10. In "D"
11. Lips That Would Kiss
12. Madeleine
13. Experiment In Fifth (Graveyard Studio Demo)
14. The First Aspect Of The Same Thing (Martin Hannett)
15. The Second Aspect Of The Same Thing (Martin Hannett)
16. Piece For An Ideal
17. Sleep Will Come

Disc Two

1. No Communication
2. Thin Ice
3. Won’t Look Out (Gammer And His Familiars ft. Vini Reilly)
4. Intervals (Home Recording 1978)
5. Katharine (Home Recording 1978)
6. Untitled (Home Recording 1978)
7. Conduct (Home Recording 1978)
8. I’m A Face (Studio Demo 1980)
9. Sketch For Summer (Studio Demo 1980)
10. Requiem For A Father (Studio Demo 1980)
11. Madeleine (Studio Demo 1980)
12. Katharine (Studio Demo 1980)
13. Lindsay (Studio Demo 1980)
14. For Belgian Friends (Studio Demo 1980)
15. Detail For Annik (Live Leeds 1980)
16. Sketch For Summer (Live Leeds 1980)
17. Requiem For A Father (Live Leeds 1980)
18. Conduct (Live Brussels 1981)
19. Self Portrait (Live Brussels 1981)
20. For Belgian Friends (Live Brussels 1981)
21. Sketch For Summer (Live Brussels 1981)