Hmm... The Durutti Column

Vini Reilly is returning to the studio after a sixteen-year silence. The Factory Records veteran—whose skeletal, delay-drenched guitar work defined the Manchester avant-garde—has announced 'Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids'. While the post-punk era is currently being strip-mined for inspiration, Reilly’s singular, ambient classicism remains notoriously difficult to replicate. We’re watching to see if his delicate minimalism can find a foothold in a modern landscape that largely caught up to his innovations while he was away.