Southampton may not be renowned for much besides opening up England's guts to the rest of Europe and the faded grandeur of a once-Premiership football squad. Siblings Gilbert Aaron and Greg's
Delays really ought to have been added to the rather illustrious aforementioned list of credits. Rather inexplicably, they then never really did. Faded Seaside Glamour was a fuzzy bluster of euphoric samples, whisking up steel drums and celestial synths like egg yolks to be added to the hefty flour of Greg Gilbert's rather seductive falsetto and driving Gibson guitar lines. Sophomore outing You See Colours got frisky with crackling electro tendencies, whilst pertaining effervescently to an undiluted pop ethic. The less said of 2008's Everything's The Rush and its ostentatiously MOTD mediocrity the better... This June however, Delays return with Star Tiger, Star Arial, their fourth studio bash through Lookout Mountain Records. Seemingly as nymph-like as ever, the woodland yelps of LP opener Find A Home (New Forest Shaker) finds Delays in a typically melodramatic mood-swing mindset, as lethargic guitars that dip in and out of consciousness like bleary eyelids gazing on a coastal sunset, the hallucinatory owl howls make out that their most subtly resplendent resplendent track since Long Time Coming wasn't the only thing they harped upon in those forests of rejuvenation...
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Delays, Find A Home (New Forest Shaker).
Delays tour the UK extensively throughout the rest of May, spilling over into early June. Kicking off you know where...
Delays' Myspace.
