‘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).
This special 2 disc edition features the original album, early works, home and studio demos, and live tracks from the era.
Features two home demos exclusive to this format.

The 48 page booklet also includes essays by The Durutti Column and Factory Records expert James Nice, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and MOJO writer Ian Harrison.

• “Essential” - The Quietus
• “The most distinctive LP in the Factory canon” - Record Collector (★★★★★)
• “A perfect meeting of the minds” - BBC
• “A quietly stunning debut” - All Music (★★★★½)

Product notes:

The packaging is a 48pp case bound book.
Covered in a maroon buckram embossed coloured paper over a 2000 micron board; printed in one colour to the front cover, spine and back cover.
The CD pockets on the inside front and back cover are made from 250gsm black uncoated paper.

The booklet is printed in four colours throughout on a 140gsm uncoated paper.

The covering paper is the same material that was originally employed on the Factory cassette series released in 1985.
The paper was found gathering dust in the lock up of a paper merchant.
It is confirmed as the original covering material as the swatch book has all the other colours from the Factory cassette series.