The Durutti Column are set to release their first album in 16 years, ‘Renascent’, following a special tribute show at Harry Styles‘ Meltdown Festival. Find all the details below.
The Manchester post-punk band will drop the follow-up to 2010’s ‘A Paean To Wilson’ on Friday July 31. Pre-order/pre-save here.
Per a press release, the LP “signals a symbolic return to origins, carrying a Factory Too catalogue number in collaboration with Oliver Wilson, continuing the legacy of Factory Records”.
“Musically, Renascent exists in a dialogue between past and present,” it adds, with songs like ‘Time Present And Time Past’ evoking “a cyclical sense of motion: forward-looking yet reflective”.
Frontman Vini Reilly’s improvisational approach remains central: spontaneous, intuitive, and resistant to formal constraints. “Every single piece of music writes itself,” he explained.
Recording sessions for the album often took place informally, sometimes in Reilly’s own kitchen. There was minimal studio equipment involved in the process, and an emphasis on immediacy.
The final product is described as “a body of work that feels both intimate and expansive, grounded in the moment yet resonant over time”.
The Durutti Column have previewed the forthcoming record with the single ‘Liars’ – check out the official visualiser here:
The tracklist for The Durutti Column’s ‘Renascent’ is:
1. ‘Echoes In The Memory’
2. ‘Your Shadow At Morning’
3. ‘Time Present And Time Past’
4. ‘Agonistes’
5. ‘Liars’
6. ‘Vapour In A Matchbox’
7. ‘Your Shadow At Evening’
8. ‘Sargasso Sea’
9. ‘Scammer’
10. ‘For Friends Everywhere’
11. ‘All They See Is Fire’ (CD/digital bonus track)
The group will be celebrated at this year’s Styles-curated Meltdown Festival in London with a concert billed as ‘For Vini: A Tribute to The Durutti Column’ on June 17.
“Celebrate the iconic musical moments of Vini Reilly, guitar maestro and post-punk legend who inspired Harry Styles, with the artist’s collaborator Keir Stewart,” a listing reads.
Stewart, who produced ‘Renascent’, will play guitar, bass, samples and keys at the one-off event. He’ll be joined on stage by Durutti Column collaborators Liz Rossi (violin, piano), Caolfhionn Rose (vocals, piano) and Sam Morris (French horn) as they interpret key moments across the band’s six-decade career.
Styles himself is scheduled to host a special gig at the Southbank Centre for Meltdown ’26 next month. Other acts on the line-up for the series include Warpaint, Nilüfer Yanya, Orlando Weeks, Bar Italia, Dev Hynes, Jon Hopkins, Getdown Services and LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy.