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Track List
01) Of the Young
02) Baiya
03) Changes
04) Freedom Found
05) Atlas
06) Tears Before Bedtime
07) The Sun Also Rises
08) Memeo
09) Don't Let the Dreamers Take You Away
10) Exotic
01) Of the Young
02) Baiya
03) Changes
04) Freedom Found
05) Atlas
06) Tears Before Bedtime
07) The Sun Also Rises
08) Memeo
09) Don't Let the Dreamers Take You Away
10) Exotic
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First Released
2013
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Collections is the second studio album by the English alternative dance band Delphic, to be released by Polydor Records on 28 January 2013.
The band worked on the album between late 2010 and Autumn 2012, first in their own studio in Manchester, followed by production work from Tim Goldsworthy at the Unit 3 studio in Bristol and Ben Allen in his studio in Atlanta. The cover art was created by Vhils. A video trailer for the album was released in November 2012. The album will be preceded by the single "Baiya".
Rick Boardman explained the delay since the band's first album: "We'd been touring for two years. We were just creatively burnt out." "We didn't want to release something that we would mean we could just go back on tour and have fun. We just want to make a really great record." He goes on to say 'Collections is a collection on songs that don't necessarily sound the same, which challenges listeners to get out of their boxes. It's why people have shuffle, so they can hear different songs on their playlists.'
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Most dance-rock hybrids mutate into hideous beasts: dull, unimaginative or plain embarrassing creations that should, by rights, be locked in one’s attic and kept away from human eyes (and ears).
It’s curious, then, that Delphic didn’t scoop more plaudits for bucking the trend with their 2010 debut Acolyte: hyped to the heavens when still in their infancy, and yet oddly overlooked when they came good with the spoils.
For all the musical heritage of their Manchester hometown, comparisons to the past seemed to hinder rather than help. Even though their sound paid debt toThe Chemical Brothers and Orbital, among others, the “knock-off New Order” catcall never seemed far away.
Delphic don’t sound like New Order any more, though – and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Instead, too often on second album Collections they seem a facsimile of disparate bands, genres and style.
Throughout, there’s a nagging suspicion that the past three years have been spent assembling a sonic patchwork of ill-fitting hand-me-downs, rather than weaving their own, better-suited garments.
So, while Of the Young is a fine, strutting stomp with its blood and thunder percussion and a skyscraper-sized chorus, first single Baiya is an unsuccessful marriage of schlocky RnB and sub-Friendly Fires dance-pop.
There’s something unsettling, too, about its would-be-sexy refrain of “Feel you breathing down my neck/ Tenderness is the only weapon left.”
The bombastic throb of The Sun Also Rises comes off as a limp halfway point between MGMT and Passion Pit, while Atlas is a six-minute slumber that only jolts into life courtesy of its flirtation with anaemic dubstep breakdowns.
Freedom Found, meanwhile, fancies itself as a sultry slow-jam but is more suited to post-passion awkwardness than steamy encounters.
Ben Allen and Tim Goldsworthy’s production is spick and span throughout. They add satisfying sheen to the likes of Don’t Let the Dreamers Take You Away, and the glitchy voicemail samples of Tears Before Bedtime show, if nothing else, a stab at innovation.
But on the whole, Collections is a misfire and proof that, sometimes, re-inventing the wheel doesn’t always reap rewards – especially if you were already journeying more gracefully from A-to-B than most of your contemporaries.
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Collections is the second studio album by the English alternative dance band Delphic, to be released by Polydor Records on 28 January 2013.
The band worked on the album between late 2010 and Autumn 2012, first in their own studio in Manchester, followed by production work from Tim Goldsworthy at the Unit 3 studio in Bristol and Ben Allen in his studio in Atlanta. The cover art was created by Vhils. A video trailer for the album was released in November 2012. The album will be preceded by the single "Baiya".
Rick Boardman explained the delay since the band's first album: "We'd been touring for two years. We were just creatively burnt out." "We didn't want to release something that we would mean we could just go back on tour and have fun. We just want to make a really great record." He goes on to say 'Collections is a collection on songs that don't necessarily sound the same, which challenges listeners to get out of their boxes. It's why people have shuffle, so they can hear different songs on their playlists.'
User Album Review
Most dance-rock hybrids mutate into hideous beasts: dull, unimaginative or plain embarrassing creations that should, by rights, be locked in one’s attic and kept away from human eyes (and ears).
It’s curious, then, that Delphic didn’t scoop more plaudits for bucking the trend with their 2010 debut Acolyte: hyped to the heavens when still in their infancy, and yet oddly overlooked when they came good with the spoils.
For all the musical heritage of their Manchester hometown, comparisons to the past seemed to hinder rather than help. Even though their sound paid debt toThe Chemical Brothers and Orbital, among others, the “knock-off New Order” catcall never seemed far away.
Delphic don’t sound like New Order any more, though – and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Instead, too often on second album Collections they seem a facsimile of disparate bands, genres and style.
Throughout, there’s a nagging suspicion that the past three years have been spent assembling a sonic patchwork of ill-fitting hand-me-downs, rather than weaving their own, better-suited garments.
So, while Of the Young is a fine, strutting stomp with its blood and thunder percussion and a skyscraper-sized chorus, first single Baiya is an unsuccessful marriage of schlocky RnB and sub-Friendly Fires dance-pop.
There’s something unsettling, too, about its would-be-sexy refrain of “Feel you breathing down my neck/ Tenderness is the only weapon left.”
The bombastic throb of The Sun Also Rises comes off as a limp halfway point between MGMT and Passion Pit, while Atlas is a six-minute slumber that only jolts into life courtesy of its flirtation with anaemic dubstep breakdowns.
Freedom Found, meanwhile, fancies itself as a sultry slow-jam but is more suited to post-passion awkwardness than steamy encounters.
Ben Allen and Tim Goldsworthy’s production is spick and span throughout. They add satisfying sheen to the likes of Don’t Let the Dreamers Take You Away, and the glitchy voicemail samples of Tears Before Bedtime show, if nothing else, a stab at innovation.
But on the whole, Collections is a misfire and proof that, sometimes, re-inventing the wheel doesn’t always reap rewards – especially if you were already journeying more gracefully from A-to-B than most of your contemporaries.
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