The Durutti Column - LC
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Artist: The Durutti ColumnEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1998-06-30
Music Label: Polygram Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Sketch for Dawn I
- Portrait for Frazer
- Jaqueline
- Messidor
- Sketch for Dawn II
- Never Known
- Act Committed
- Detail for Paul
- Missing Boy
- Sweet Cheat Gone
- For Mimi
- Belgian Friends
- Self Portrait
- One Christmas for Your Thoughts
- Danny
- Enigma
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Free Music Review: 4 star album, 5 star bonus tracks
Hit: 5 Stars
Vini Reilly's LC is a subtle and understated, albeit rather dark, sophomore album (it is like a counterpart to New Order's equally sombre debut album, Movement). But, in typically perverse Factory Records fashion, what makes this re-issued album really worth buying are the bonus tracks. The Martin Hannett-produced trio For Mimi, Belgian Friends, and Self-Portrait, are as close to musical perfection as you're ever likely to hear. The first of this heavenly trio sets a superbly funky jazz break (produced perfectly, of course) against Vini's languid guitar extemporising. It sounds like funked-up, mellowed-out Joy Division, if such a thing makes sense. As for Belgian Friends- it is simply sublime- the song bubbles along with beautiful, almost imperceptably subtle chord changes, and the instrumentation is exquisite- almost rapturously beautiful. Self-Portrait has yet another crisp, tight drumbeat off-set by deliciously wonky guitar treatments, while the obbligato of the keyboards adds a classical touch. The other bonus tracks are, unbelievably, almost as good, especially A Christmas for your Thoughts. They are worth the price of the album by themselves.
But what about the album itself? Well, its subtle, its moody and introspective, but despite standouts like Never Known and The Act Committed, it could have done with a sprinkling of Martin Hannett's magic dust (that is- his production skills, not his drugs!) Also, the drumming on the album proper is noticably less tight compared with the bonus tracks, which featured a brilliant funk drummer called Donald Johnston, who sadly fell out with Reilly before the album was recorded. This is a pity, because it's mouth-watering to think what the album would have sounded like with that guy on board.
It may sound perverse, but buy it for the bonus tracks, even though the album itself is pretty good as well.
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1981 Release. reissue features Bonus Tracks of Rare NON-LP Material from the Same Period.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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