Another Setting

Durutti Column - Another Setting

Everybody should have their favourite Durutti Column album. I choose Another Setting. For me it is Reilly's most diverse and complex, it is ever so slightly pretentious with it's arty template sleeve design and ID-style credits (Perfume by Jovan, and Clothes by Lucinda Byre), and because of the way Vini intertwines what is just three or four songs with brief moments of semi-classical virtuosity. 

There are just four musicians on the record, and it is the cor anglais of Manaugh Fleming on the opening Prayer and the beautiful Second Family which sets this album apart from LC. The two proper songs, Bordeaux and The Beggar are among the Durutti's best and most familiar, and although many critic Reilly's voice, his monotony and melancholy seem to fit the mood and melody on both perfectly. Unfortunately Smile In The Crowd is not Reilly's at his best, it is him at his most miserable and the song cannot be saved by wonderful guitar and cor anglais interludes, or even Simon Topping's out-of-tune trumpet. The closing Spent Time is one of Reilly's simplest yet most charming and reflective compositions.

Ripped from a 1998 CD reissue of an original album released on Factory Records (FACT 74) in 1983 to high quality lossless FLAC audio.

A1. Prayer
A2. Response
A3. Bordeaux
A4. For A Western
A5. The Beggar
B1. Francesca
B2. Smile In The Crowd
B3. You've Heard It Before
B4. Dream Of A Child
B5. Second Family
B6. Spent Time