FACTORY BENELUX/DEMON
★★★★
Bonanza time for Durutti Column fans. 1986’s Circuses And Bread, now with six bonus tracks, features an unusually affecting vocal on the brittle Tomorrow and puts Tim Kellett’s trumpet centre-stage for Blind Elevator Girl (Osaka). 1994’s Sex And Death, also with added rarities, is far prettier than its name suggests: For Colette blossoms in slow motion, and Cowie Eastwood’s Karin Dreijer-like voice twists Fado. On 2001’s Rebellion, Vick A Wood adds folkish vocals to The Fields Of Athenry, while Meschugana exploits brass-heavy orchestral samples and Overload Part One experiments with breakbeats and an MC. 2003’s Someone Else’s Party further indulges Vini Reilly’s fondness for beats amid Love Is A Friend’s booms and Vigil’s child voices, but 2006’s Keep Breathing adds more edge thanks to Let Me Tell You Something. As for 2009’s Love In The Time Of Recession, Wild Beast Tamed’s piano is beguiling and My Poppy a perfect drowsy lullaby.