release date: Jan. 24, 2010
format: digital (2-disc)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5]
producer: Keir Stewart, Bruce Mitchell
label: Kooky Records - nationality: England, UK
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 follows the 19th studio album Treatise on the Steppenwolf Soundtrack, a soundtrack album released on LTM Recordings (Aug. 2008) and of course the most recent release: the 20th studio album Love in the Time of Recession (2009) issued on Artful Records.
A Paen... is dedicated Tony Wilson (Anthony Wilson) co-founder of Factory Records and Reilly's friend and manager who passed away in 2007. Here, Reilly covers almost all of his vast stylistic repertoire playing post-punk, art rock, experimental rock, acoustic rock, dream pop, ambient, electronic, jazz, modern classical, 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 called Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital. It Was Heaven Sent), originally released as a standalone digital download ep only in 2005, thus making it a mere gift than an integral part or an extension to the actual album.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 stars ]