release date: Dec. 1990
format: digital (fact 274)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,88]
producer: Vini Reilly
label: Factory Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 1. "Vino della Casa Blanco" - 3. "Fridays" - 5. "Art and Freight" - 10. "Vino della Casa Rosso"
8th studio album by The Durutti Column released on Factory Records and produced by Vini Reilly. This was a bit of a musical disappointment to me. The interesting part about the album is Reilly's experimentation with the electronic genre. He explores new styles and 'machinery' but the end result is not favourable on this one, which was his last studio album at legendary Factory Records. The company declared bankruptcy in '92 and Reilly found a temporary record label in Italy.
After this he released two semi-studio albums Dry (1991) and Red Shoes (1992) both on the Italian record label Materiali Sonori (both with some new tracks but also new versions of older material) before returning to England and the label Factory Too to release Sex and Death (1994).
[ allmusic.com hands it 2 in 5 stars ]
