The Durutti Column Announce New LP ‘Renascent’

Legendary Manchester guitar band The Durutti Column are back with Renascent, their first studio album in over 15 years.

Led by the great Vini Reilly and the expressive nature of his six-string artistry, Durutti exists in a place where chamber music, experimental dance, art pop and sampledelia intersect to craft a sound that continues to inspire artists in 2026 to choose romance over rage when working on material. 

In recent years a new generation of artists as diverse as Frank Ocean, The Avalanches, Yung Lean, Youth Lagoon and Mark William Lewis have declared or demonstrated Durutti’s influence. 

In the past year Blood Orange sampled “Sing to Me” for 2025’s single “The Field,” and the band was hailed by Harry Styles as a key influence on his most recent album, 2026’s Kiss All the Time. Disco Occasionally.

In fact, Styles is curating this year’s Meltdown Festival, where Durutti will be celebrated on June 17 with a special concert “For Vini: A Tribute to The Durutti Column.”

Led by Renascent producer Keir Stewart (guitar, bass, samples, keys), he will be joined by Durutti 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.

In addition to Stewart, Renascent also finds Reilly working with longtime drummer Bruce Mitchell on the group’s first collection of new material since 2010’s A Paean to Wilson. It also signals a symbolic return to origins, carrying a Factory Too catalogue number in collaboration with Oliver Wilson, continuing the legacy of Factory Records. 

Visually, Renascent reunites the band with original Factory design collaborators, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir of 8vo, whose artwork mirrors the music’s balance of modernist precision and romantic warmth through rich, vibrant color.

Musically, Renascent is said to exist in a dialogue between past and present that offers a seamlessness which can be traced directly back to their 1980 debut The Return of The Durutti Column, which was masterfully expanded and reissued earlier this year by London Records. 

“Every single piece of music writes itself,” he notes, and songs like “Time Present and Time Past” and “Vapour in a Matchbox” certainly evoke that through line, tapping into the immediacy and improvisational intimacy that’s always been a cornerstone of the DC sound. 

“Vin’s songs are constantly surprising,” says Mitchell, “you want to keep on listening to them over and over again…. It’s like a child that leaves home for a long time and then they return and you love them all the more all over again.”

Renascent, which will be released on July 31, was at times recorded in Reilly’s kitchen and very much feels like The Durutti Column reborn for a new generation. 

“From the moment we’re born we’re never ever instigative, only ever reactive,” says Reilly. “It’s like Newton’s law of motion, if you’re not pushing against anything, you lose momentum.” 

Renascent will be available across a number of formats including digital, CD (both with the bonus track “All They See is Fire”) and transparent yellow vinyl. 

There will also be a limited edition vinyl featuring alternative artwork, pressed on bottle green vinyl and featuring an oversized booklet. 

The official Durutti Column store will host some very limited editions including a cassette, and a very special edition slipcase version of the album (limited to 1,000 copies worldwide) with alternative artwork, heavyweight black vinyl, a DVD with unique visualizers for every track, 4 art prints and a folded poster. 

Rough Trade have their own exclusive edition of the album (limited to 500 copies), a split purple / green vinyl version, with a bonus flexi disc of “All They See is Fire.”

 

RENASCENT (ALBUM)

Echoes In The Memory

Your Shadow At Morning

Time Present And Time Past

Agonistes

Liars

Vapour In A Matchbox

Your Shadow At Evening

Sargasso Sea

Scammer

For Friends Everywhere

All They See Is Fire (CD / digital bonus track)