A hero to Harry Styles and Frank Ocean, the Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly is back from the brink
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The British cult group of guitarist Vini Reilly navigates between pastoral dreams, flamenco, folk ballads, electronic experiments without ever getting away from his universe.
He hasn't released anything for fifteen years. At 72, still on the margins of the period and the music industry, the unusual and virtuoso guitarist of The Durutti Column is back. With an upsetting album.
The Durutti Column: Renascent
The title of Renascent seems to relate more to the new level of recognition being enjoyed by Vini Reilly, whose profile in 2026 is higher than at any point in the 46 years his group has been releasing records, than to the music on the album itself. Or at least, if Renascent represents a rebirth on the part of the Durutti Column, it finds the band pretty much picking up where they left off, rather than starting afresh. In short, the band’s 28th a…
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