Beautiful and gorgeous sound textures amidst layered and dream flavored guitar picking. With its awkward name and cynical packaging (when released in the late 1970's this album was packaged with a sandpaper sleeve, forcefully mimicking Guy Debords antics from ten years earlier) one would suspect this to be another buzzcock mock up considering how at the time bands were up to their necks in safety pins and bubble gum pop facial features. Amidst all that horrible chaos and pandemonium you get The Return Of The Durutti Column, which in retrospect could very well be the antagonist in punks early years. Released by Factory Records while a certain band by the name of Joy Division was having what it wanted, featuring a member of Factory Records alumni by the name of Vini Reilly who puts his guitars to good use, The dream master of the six stringed axe, and produced by ex Joy Division producer Martin Hannett, who is well known for mocking Joy Division and pushing them to be the band they are famous for becoming. One would think this album was pure Vini Reilly but you can't get into it without realizing that the guitar sounds the way it does because of the masterful work of Martin Hannett. Initially just guitar tracks made one after the other, this album does not sound like anything else released at the time, more kraut rock less post punk, but you only really get shivers when the electro bleeps start flashing through. Very chillingly beautiful, A space odyssey that can only be fathomed through sound. Ghastly and haunting.
The album starts off nearly perfect, perpetually building from one song to another, you in your mind may as well put this one on when everyone is sleeping and you need time to think for yourself or possibly cry in vain.
The Durutti Column - The Return Of The Durutti Column
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