THE DURUTTI COLUMN RELEASE NEW SINGLE “SCAMMER” | NEW ALBUM RENASCENT OUT JULY 31
LONDON RECORDS
Out now, “Scammer” is the hauntingly beautiful new single from The Durutti Column, whose surprise return with the forthcoming album Renascent marks their first new music in 16 years. A liminal, pastoral meditation, “Scammer” pairs shimmering synth washes and chiming guitar with Vini Reilly’s free-associative vocals.
Due July 31 via London Records, Renascent also features the acclaimed lead single “Liars,” currently on the B-list at BBC 6Music. The band’s long-awaited return has already been met with widespread critical praise.
Pitchfork called “Liars” “a bona fide entry into the Column canon,” writing that it “layers guitar refractions and sighing keys over portentous drums,” while naming Renascent one of its “52 Most Anticipated Albums of the Summer.” Stereogum praised the track as a “gasping, regretful meditation that brings back the classic Durutti Column sound, but with the hard-won perspective that comes with age.”
Total originals are a rare thing. Yet across five decades, guitarist Vini Reilly and his band, The Durutti Column have created their own, instantly recognizable style of music: intricate but unflashy, immediate yet timeless, melancholic but ecstatic. In recent years their singular sound has been embraced by a whole new generation of artists, including Harry Styles, who named The Durutti Column as a major influence on 2026’s Kiss All the Time. Disco Occasionally, and included the band in his curation of Meltdown Festival with the special concert For Vini: A Tribute To The Durutti Column.
Once existing beyond trends, The Durutti Column now find themselves rediscovered, their work resonating with audiences encountering it anew. Renascent, meaning “being reborn, reviving, springing up afresh,” captures both this renewed visibility and a deeper artistic resurgence.
In recent years songs by The Durutti Column have surfaced in major cultural touchstones, from television and gaming soundtracks to high fashion runways, while a new generation of artists as diverse as Frank Ocean, The Avalanches, Yung Lean, Youth Lagoon and Mark William Lewis have declared or demonstrated Durutti’s influence.
The album marks the group’s first collection of new material since 2010’s A Paean to Wilson. It also signals a symbolic return to origins, carrying a Factory Too catalogue number in collaboration with Oliver Wilson, continuing the legacy of Factory Records. Visually, Renascent reunites the band with original Factory design collaborators, Mark Holt and Hamish Muir of 8vo, whose artwork mirrors the music’s balance of modernist precision and romantic warmth through rich, sensuous color.
Musically, Renascent exists in a dialogue between past and present. Tracks such as “Time Present and Time Past” evoke a cyclical sense of motion: forward-looking yet reflective. Reilly’s improvisational approach remains central: spontaneous, intuitive, and resistant to formal constraints. “Every single piece of music writes itself,” he notes, and the album’s recordings preserve that immediacy. Pieces like “Vapour in a Matchbox” exemplify this ethos, transforming fleeting inspiration into compositions of lasting emotional depth.
Renascent is perhaps the most collaborative album Durutti have made – and not just because of the increased input of Mitchell and particularly of Stewart. Reilly’s Manchester neighbor, folktronica artist Caoilfhionn Rose sings on the stately, yearning “Agonistes” and sings and plays piano on the gorgeous, hymn-like “Sargasso Sea.”
Despite the passage of time, Reilly’s artistic philosophy remains rooted in motion and response. Creativity, for him, is an ongoing process; reactive, immediate, and alive. That sense of momentum carries through Renascent, an album that does not seek to recapture the past but to reanimate it, allowing it to evolve in new and unexpected ways.
The Durutti Column are Renascent.
The album will be available across a number of formats including digital, CD (both with the bonus track “All They See is Fire”) and transparent yellow vinyl. There will also be a limited edition vinyl featuring alternative artwork, pressed on bottle green vinyl and featuring an oversized booklet. The official Durutti Column store will host some very limited editions, including a cassette, and a very special edition slipcase version of the album (limited to 1,000 copies worldwide) with alternative artwork, heavyweight black vinyl, a DVD with unique visualizers for every track, 4 art prints and a folded poster.
The Durutti Column
Renascent
(London Records)
Release Date: July 31, 2026
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Photo Credit: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian/eyevine
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