After 15 Years The Durutti Column Rise Again
New Durutti Album Out 31st July 2026 Album Review My immediate response to this album of newly released, but not necessarily new compositions, was that Renascent is a near perfect album for these Dog Days of summer. I have played and replayed the collection in its entirety repeatedly since the moment I clicked on the opening file, Echoes in The Memory . The brief introductory track has a deceptive beginning. It is slow to build and slightly threatening in tone. It develops, with a change of tempo, into what might be a musical synopsis of the complete album. The brevity of the first track and its broken rhythm leads beautifully into the cool of Your Shadow at Morning, where use of steady piano chords working through a series of cycles, provides the background to series of finely-etched guitar details, before the piano eases its way into the foreground, completing a wholly satisfying piece. Harold Budd would have been proud to issue this in his creative prime. Vini Reil...
