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The Return of the Durutti Column is the debut studio album by English band The Durutti Column. It was released in January 1980, through record label Factory.




Background


The album was a collaboration between producer Martin Hannett and Vini Reilly. Hannett experimented with electronic sounds in the studio, creating the backing tracks to which Reilly's classical influenced guitar playing was added.
The original 2000 LP sleeves were made of coarse sandpaper (an homage to the Situationist book Mémoires (1959) that similarly had a sandpaper cover) designed by Dave Rowbotham and Tony Wilson. The sleeves were assembled by members of the band and label-mates Joy Division. The initial two thousand copies also included a flexi-disc single with two tracks by producer Martin Hannett: "First Aspect of the Same Thing" and "Second Aspect of the Same Thing".
A regular printed sleeve for later copies was designed by Steve Horsfall featuring paintings by Jean Dufy in varying textured and non-textured sleeves. This release includes an additional mix of the album with less reverb and more phasing,
"Sketch for Summer"/"Sketch for Winter" was released as a single (Gap Records SFA-491) in Australia, with a sleeve by Andrew Penhallow of Gap.
In 2013, a modified version was issued as a vinyl album by Factory Benelux (FBN-114) with an 11-inch square sheet of coarse glasspaper attached to the inner sleeve, visible through a die-cut in the front cover. The die-cut was based on the 1978 Factory 'bar graph' logo designed by Peter Saville. On this edition, the Hannett tracks were included on a bonus 7-inch single on hard vinyl.
The album was given the Factory Identifier FACT14 (Vinyl), or FACT14-C (Cassette).




Legacy



AllMusic called the album a "quietly stunning debut, as influential down the road as his labelmates in Joy Division's effort with Unknown Pleasures."
Reviewing the 2013 reissue, Record Collector's Ian Shirley called it "arguably the most distinctive record in the Factory canon" and deemed it "a classic album".




Track listing


All tracks written by Vini Reilly

Side A
"Sketch for Summer" - 2:58
"Requiem for a Father" - 5:06
"Katharine" - 5:26
"Conduct" - 4:59
Side B
"Beginning" - 1:37
"Jazz" - 1:35
"Sketch for Winter" - 2:22
"Collette" - 2:20
"In 'D'" - 2:25
Bonus flexi-disc
"First Aspect of the Same Thing" - 3:42
"Second Aspect of the Same Thing" - 2:59




Personnel


The Durutti Column
Vini Reilly – guitar
Pete Crooks – bass guitar
Toby Toman (credited as Toby) – drums
Additional personnel
Martin Hannett – production
Chris Nagle – engineering
John Brierley – engineering
Anthony H. Wilson – sleeve artwork (uncredited)




References






External links


The Return of the Durutti Column at Discogs (list of releases)

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