Durutti Column: Valuable Passages (Factory)
Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 3 January 1987
SOMETIMES, WHEN you're kept rooted at one spot by something, you stay. None the more sure about what it was that pushed you there, yet never turning away. Could have been 'Never Known' giving new credence to sensitivity, or perhaps 'Spent Time's' catalogue of recollections at any journey's end but these passages just trap you. Like a collection of old photographs marking out points of progress, all that was once locked up now comes back for reappraisal. And, away from most retrospectives, stringing these selected excerpts together does make a difference. A difference beyond context.
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