release date: Jan. 24, 2010
format: digital (2-disc)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5]
Tracklist: 1. "Or Are You Just a Technician" - 2. "Chant" - 3. "Quatro" - 4. "Requiem" - 5. "Stuki" - 6. "Along Came Poppy" (4 / 5) - 7. "Brother" - 8. "Duet With Piano" - 9. "Darkness Here" - 10. "Catos Revisited" (4 / 5) - 11. "The Truth" - 12. "How Unbelievable"
21st studio album by The Durutti Column issued on Kooky Records produced by Keir Stewart and Bruce Mitchell. Before this, The DC released the 19th studio album Treatise on the Steppenwolf Soundtrack, a soundtrack album released on LTM Recordings (August 2008), and his 20th studio album Love in the Time of Recession (2009) issued on Artful Records.
A Paen... is dedicated to Tony Wilson (Anthony Wilson) co-founder of Factory Records, and Reilly's friend and manager who died in 2007. Here, Reilly covers almost all of his vast stylistic repertoire, playing post-punk, art rock, experimental, acoustic rock, dream pop, ambient, electronic, jazz, modern classical, electronic, shoegaze... and without making it a mishmash of styles. It's so incorporated in Reilly's expressiveness that it works even for this, an instrumental dedication. The album is released with a bonus disc Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital. It Was Heaven Sent), originally released as digital download ep album only in 2005, thus making it a mere gift than an integral part of the actual album.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 stars ]
