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Released
  
November 1981

LC (1981)
  
Another Setting (1983)

Release date
  
November 1981

Length
  
41:30

Artist
  
The Durutti Column

Label
  
Factory Records

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Producer
  
Stewart Pickering, Vini Reilly

Genres
  
Post-punk, Dream pop, Post-rock

Similar
  
The Return of the Durutti C, Another Setting, Short Stories for Pauline, Circuses and Bread, Live At The Venue

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LC is the second studio album by English band The Durutti Column. It was released in November 1981 through Manchester record label Factory.

Contents

Background

The album was the first to feature drummer and percussionist Bruce Mitchell as well as guitarist and songwriter Vini Reilly. The song "The Missing Boy" is a tribute to Reilly's friend and label-mate Ian Curtis of Joy Division, who had recently committed suicide.

Release

LC was released in November 1981.

It was reissued in January 2013 on the reactivated Factory Benelux as a double-CD package.

Track listing

All tracks written by Vini Reilly.

2013 track listing

The 2013 reissue includes the Sordide Sentimental single "Danny"/"Enigma", the Deux Triangles 12" (the original FBN-10) the tracks on A Factory Quartet, Crépuscule compilation album tracks, and demo versions of tracks from LC.

Disc one
  1. "Sketch for Dawn (1)"
  2. "Portrait for Frazier"
  3. "Jaqueline"
  4. "Messidor"
  5. "Sketch for Dawn (2)"
  6. "Never Known"
  7. "The Act Committed"
  8. "Detail for Paul"
  9. "The Missing Boy"
  10. "The Sweet Cheat Gone"
  11. "Danny"
  12. "Enigma"
  13. "For Mimi"
  14. "For Belgian Friends"
  15. "Self-Portrait"
  16. "Favourite Painting"
  17. "Zinni"
Disc two
  1. "Mavuchka"
  2. "Experiment in Fifth"
  3. "Portrait for Paul"
  4. "The Act Committed"
  5. "Portrait for Frazier"
  6. "Never Known"
  7. "Untitled LC Demo"
  8. "For Patti"
  9. "Weakness and Fever"
  10. "The Eye and the Hand"
  11. "Party"
  12. "One Christmas for Your Thoughts"
  13. "Hommage to Martinů"
  14. "Sleep Will Come"
  15. "Piece for an Ideal"
  16. "Piece of Out of Tune Grand Piano"

Reception

AllMusic wrote, "As great as Return is, this is perhaps even better, signaling a full flowering of [Vini] Reilly's talents throughout the album."

Personnel

The Durutti Column
  • Vini Reilly – vocals, all other instruments, production
  • Bruce Mitchell – percussion
  • Additional personnel
  • Stewart Pickering – production
  • EG – mastering
  • Les Thompson – sleeve design
  • GYL – sleeve artwork
  • Jackie Williams – sleeve painting
  • John Nichols – sleeve photography
  • Songs

    1Sketch for Dawn 15:18
    2Portrait for Frazer3:33
    3Jacqueline2:19

    References

    LC (album) Wikipedia