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Album Of The Week: Delphic – Acolyte
By Groupie | February 9, 2010
Delphic are another band under the burden of the hype which swells up at the beginning of the Blog New Year, but we predict they’ll be one of the lucky few to get through it. After speaking to the band for this month’s issue of Groupie (out this week) they revealed that they knew that come the season of “Acts To Look Out For in 2010” lists, they had to have their record done and be on the road. Check out the Feb issue to hear how they went about preparing for the inevitable media attention they had in store.
The band were known in Manchester for impromptu outdoor raves and back alley gigs which helped shape their distinctive sound. “We’d hire our drummer Dan’s generator and get a couple of lights going and take it out to a field,” says vocalist/keyboardist James Cook. We’d just setup pretty roughly, the sound was awful. So we’d do it ourselves and get a few friends down, then you’d see faces that you didn’t quite recognise and it was friends of friends and then more and more people as it grew. It was a great atmosphere because everyone there just wanted to party and it was late at night and it was dark. Mostly they were in fields and also in our rehearsal room where there’s not really enough room to swing a cat and you could only fit about fifteen people in there.” These live experiences are thoroughly integrated into the band’s debut album ‘Acolyte’.
‘Acolyte’ is a fifty minute ‘set’ of tunes which is more nu-rave than any nu-rave act that officially held the tag when it was conceived. Amongst the dance beats there are some song writing highlights of the likes of ‘Doubt’ and the very New Order-sounding ‘Submission’ where Cook displays his vocal chops to quite impressive effect. While ‘Acolyte’ is not as immediate as other hot albums of the moment, there are definitely moments on there which await the second or third listen. It will be interesting to see if they’ve got another album in them, in the meanwhile we should be able to catch them our way in the next few months.
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