At the end of July, the Durutti Column will release their first new music in 16 years: the stunningly beautiful Renascent. It\u2019s a prime time for Vini Reilly, Bruce Mitchell and Keir Stewart to return as the Durutti influence is everywhere: sampled by Blood Orange on his latest album Essex Honey; cited by Harry Styles on his new LP Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, as well as by Mark William Lewis and Yung Lean; played on The Bear.<\/p>\n
Not that the group need the endorsements: since 1978, they have been one of the UK\u2019s most distinctive acts, their dreamy instrumentals offering a sunlit alternative to the crags of post-punk, as last year\u2019s reissue of their debut, The Return of the Durutti Column reminded us. The record\u2019s deviation from the norms of the era, wrote Alexis Petridis in a five-star reappraisal, \u201cultimately worked in its favour: other than the sound of the primitive rhythm tracks, there\u2019s nothing to tie the music here to a specific era, which means it hasn\u2019t dated.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can ask Reilly about being the first act to sign to Factory Records, having that debut album compiled against his will by producer Martin Hannett, working with Morrissey, learning to play guitar again after suffering a stroke, and quite how this new album came about. \u201cI\u2019ve got a good excuse to stop now because I\u2019ve got arthritis,\u201d he told us in 2023<\/a> \u2013 yet here we are, with as gorgeous a record as they\u2019ve ever made.<\/p>\n Post your questions in the comments by the end of 23 June and the best answers will appear on Guardian music soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the end of July, the Durutti Column will release their first new music in 16 years: the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}