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worth buying? it just started getting some airplay in australia

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, totally. lovely stuff, and their b-sides are usually pretty strong too

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

ok tops! pay day tomorrow

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=1913

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so ashamed. I've been Carolanning on the album. It used to be just the first three songs, but now I've decided I like the whole thing. It's very good gentle, pretty, calm you down when you're at work music. Nothing mind-blowing, but nice lovely jingle-jangle combined with a certain textural adventurousness that I find a cut above the usual 60s/Creation Records fetishists.

(Plus, well, they're HOTT!) [/usual Kate outburst]

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the last track.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"carolanning"?

ok i'm really rather looking forward to it now

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, should explain. "Carolanning" means listening to something over and over and over like a food binge. It's so called because of a Boo Radleys song (Does This Hurt?) with the chorus "Carolanne, Carolanne, you've smashed your dreams and now you've taken mine..." (or something like that, poor memory) which me and some mates used to listen to over and over and over on endless repeat.

I have a feeling that The Delays are a lot like that Manitoba record. I'll listen to it intensely for a few months because it's perfect for a situation and then probably put it aside and not give it another though when I'm done consuming it.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm i do think the manitoba has a very short shelflife, whereas the delays feel a bit more lasting.

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

excellent, thanks. at the moment i seem to have a fetish for exclusively buying bands that start with "the". so it's lucky that they're a "the" band too i wouldn't like to buck the trend.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, they're pretty insistent on the fact that they are called just DELAYS, not The Delays at all, which apparently was a record company mistake on the album cover. Or, at least, that's what I've read.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dear. that's unfortunate. i'll just pretend i don't know.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

no, MOR crap...buy Animal Collective's "Sung Tongs" You'll thank me

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh God no.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Pet Sounds as reimagined by ethnology students high on PCP.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

oooooooh sounds so tempting when you put it like that.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's a great record; one of my favorites so far this year. For about two weeks in May, I was pretty much listening to it exclusively and still do so fairly often. Several reviews have said the album's frontloaded with all the good songs, but that's untrue. It's consistent all the way through.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

animal collective can seriously eat my fuc

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ok i am completely convinced. i shall set myself the mission to buy it tomorrow.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

if i wanted to be hyped at i'd go listen to interpol or something

(xpost)

― the surface noise and the analogue warmth (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

faded seaside glamour i mean, not the animal whatsit

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

it's pretty, but the vocals wreck it for me... kind of dream-pop geddy lee. gah.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

your loss

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought they were mor crap?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

So, do I want to buy this or not? I hate it when you bastards can't make up my mind.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Geddy Leeness of his voice. That was what first attracted me to the music, I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a gurl. I like it when boys sing like gurls. But I would, I'm a Ride fan, after all.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I like 'em very much and the not insignificant fact that G. Sutton from a certain B. Psychosis produced it is also worth noting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It's official. It's love. They're going to be my obsession of the summer. Spring has sprung and I need more 12-strings in my life.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Long Time Coming" is as perfect a song as I've heard this year.

― abegrand, Monday, 21 June 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"LTC" is the new Carolanne. I'm glad it's not just me that feels this way.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(Cute video, too. I know it's supposed to be Royston Vasey or something, but I swear we've driven though it, or one of those other weird Pennine towns you have to drive through while on tour between Manchester and Sheffield. "Taking the Gossip to Glossop" type places. Tee hee.)

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and I've decided it's not sub-Las'ian jangling, they actually sound more like the Sundays. If singer bloke would put his hair in a bun, then they would be perfection.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing that annoys me about the band is that they've got such lovely hair. It's almost like they take a hairdresser along on tour with them

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

But that's exactly what I *love* about them. It's like every single one of them is Nick Rhodes. Or at least the two blond ones. Or, erm... that's it, isn't it? It's a Nick Rhodes who actually plays keyboards (sorry, is a *synthesist*) instead of just abusing their guitar with loads of pedals to make themselves sound like Nick Rhodes. (Not that I've ever done that, oh no.)

That's what being in a band is all about. Having good haircuts and good shoes and a tune you can carolanne on.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw them at Fleadh yesterday. The boy can really sing.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(Like a girl)

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know what any of them look like. BUT i walked the length and breadth of the cbd to find a copy last week... eventually i did IN THE HEAVY METAL SECTION of one of our local record shops which was somewhat amusing. i LOVE LOVE LOVE this cd. my friends say it is twee and sugary but i don't care. i've listened to it over and over again. i fear the main disadvantage of this is that i've been cramming for exams so now it will probably remind me of the property exam from hell. apart from that .... the lovely airy sounds of that first song (wanderlust) are my favourite thing to listen too just at the minute.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

apologies for the total overuse of caps, i'm a bit pissed as i just finished my last exam a few hours ago and had to make a mandatory pilgrimage to the pub

― gem (trisk), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Heavy metal? Uuuhhh... that's a bit odd.

Twee and sugary? Perhaps, but it's the *right* kind of twee and sugary, as in slightly acidic sugary, more like a Pixie Stick than a marshmallow, ya know?

I'm glad that you like it, though. Yay! I probably shouldn't listen to it so much while doing the Reports From Hell, but I haven't come to associate it with badness, I still associate it with lying on a canal boat in the sun, which is a nice feeling to have resort back to when you're in the midst of some kind of ickystresshell.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i do love it. and i love the cover art too! how cool is that titanic pic. was it you that said you'd had it on repeat over and over? i've almost had to talk myself into alternating it with other cds so i don't completely get sick of it, i really do love it!

― gem (trisk), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The cover has canals on it. I'm a big fan of canals. I'm not crazy about the colour scheme, but it's got BIG SHIPS going through canals and aqueducts and things, that makes me ridiculously happy.

Yes, I've had to force myself to take it off repeat, though, for exactly the same reasons you say, and now I'm listening to my beloved Dandy Warhols, because I need the sugarpsych textures. And the bleach. Sigh.

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

actually it was perfect study music, because it wasn't too taxing but also really enjoyable so i could have a little daydream and listen along but also tune out and concentrate really well. very handy. and reasonably cheerful, also important for cram music.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Rah Kate being a fan! I sensed she'd love 'em. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I resisted for too long, cause too many people told me "You WILL love this band!" which always makes me want to be obstinate and not like them. But yes, they're Kate Bait from their name to their haircuts to their shimmering textures to their 12 string to their vocal harmonies to their production to their... (how quickly do you think I'll burn out or get bored?)

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

(Dear lord, I just made the mistake of reading the messageboards on their site. I feel old now. I made a Gay Dad joke about haircuts and suddenly realised no one would get it.)

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i like this. reminds me of the cocteaus in parts.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I misread that as "the Cocteaus in pants" and had nightmarish images of Robin Guthrie in his smalls.

― My New Identity (kate), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

hott

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

and steel drums to kick off the album

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yes, the steel drums, urgent and key. My new favourite song on the album is now "Stay Where You Are" because of the weird distortobass/keyboard riff at the beginning, and the interlocking clockwork way that it blends into the rest of the song.

― My New Identity (kate), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that is a nice bass riff.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Graham was only brought in to 'troubleshoot' it apparently after a 'big name' fucked them over somewhat. They've been reocrding their second album with him already though. He's also working with British Sea Power at the moment = potential serious Katebait.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I fucking hate British Sea Power.

― My New Identity (kate), Thursday, 1 July 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, let me qualify that. They're lovely blokes, nice people, they do a lot for the music scene, but my god, their music is the most tedious pile of pretentious (yes, I mean that in the literal sense) bollocks I've ever wasted precious moments of my life inflicting upon my ears.

― My New Identity (kate), Thursday, 1 July 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah? I'm surprised, I saw them as being similar to Clearlake.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 July 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think i like Clearlake but i do like BSP for some reason

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 1 July 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What about the Veils. Good stuff I say.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 1 July 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

Zac and I saw the video for Nearer than Heaven on the Wedge last night, and yeah, I think (for me at least) it's love. Must buy! Must buy!

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 31 July 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I still think they look and sound like Kate raised Hanson.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It is strange that I never contributed to the thread.

Theirs is the only new LP I have bought in ... years?

And when I like it, I like a lot.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I misread that as "Kate braised Hanson" ...which doesn't make any sense.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I discovered I have a Delays record in my collection. It is their cover of Mazzy Star's 'Ride It On' on Rough Trade's 25th anniversary CD. It is pretty awful. I think the bellefox should have chosen another LP.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Its not as bad as the Veil's Scritti Politti cover!

― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(excuse the punctuation)

― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

So after listening to the full album a couple of times, I've decided that I like the first couple of singles more. No offense to the band but I think Sutton made them sound better than they actually deserve.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Its not as bad as the Veil's Scritti Politti cover!

I have just listened to it. You are right.

Elizabeth Fraser's 'At Last I Am Free' is a treat, however. I don't know the original, though.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Kate raised Hanson" bwah hah hah, what a lovely thought. Mmmmm.

The singles are still the best part of the album, Chris, but the rest of it will grow on you. Especially the other Sutton-produced tracks.

I haven't really made up my mind on "Ride It On". I do like the sound and feel of their version, but it bears no relation whatsoever to the (rather superior) original. If I think of it as its own song, it's a beautiful B-side. It's just not Mazzy Star, nor should it be treated as such.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

A few more listens and it's starting to remind me of A Nothern Chorus.
Though I strongly disagree with the AMG review of ANC.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I've fallen really hard in love with this album. It's gonna be the soundtrack to my fall, I just know it.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 September 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

agreed. despite what some ppl think, i'm enraptured by that guy's voice. especially in the live setting

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't want to know if it was a boy or a girl, but assumed it was a boy AND a girl. Today I find out it is purely boy and am so...excited about that.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 September 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxy, the woman of good taste!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 1 October 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah for Roxy! Delays rock my world! I'm so happy they're coming back to England this month and I will finally get to see them live.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Nice.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 22 October 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

They're playing tonight at the Shepherds Bush Empire. I haven't been to a Rock Show in so long. I'm excited!

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i still love this cd!

this was my first (and only so far) thread on ilxor.com

― gem (trisk), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked their singles a lot, but was a little so-so on the album as a whole. I saw them live at the Astoria last year and wasn't terribly impressed. They keyboard player was pissing me off with his 'look at me I'm so coooool' tough guy swagger, but Kate I'm sure you'll appreciate it ;)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"tough guy"? Aaron? Are we talking about the same silly goof?

He's not all "Look at me I'm so cool" he's all "LOOK AT ME, I'M A MONKEY HA HA HA HA HA!!!"

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

well, he was being goofy too, but he was seriously acting like he was some sort of hardman or something. quite comical.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I've just seen them in action for the first time. That singer better thank God for that golden voice on a daily, 'cause he looks like Maggie Simpson (and wears a sailor suit, though that's apparently by choice).

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 2 January 2005 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah. That's a beautiful new vision.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 January 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, and you can play Delays-themed football on this site: http://www.fadedseasideglamour.co.uk/ It even has James Endeacott in it!!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 2 January 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

Ok, so new album?

Coming out, or...?

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

You got me! I was just listening to the old one yesterday and was wondering where the next one was.

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly it's "done", but I can't find a release date.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

And it is called You See Colours.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

God their site is confusing. I hate Flash.

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Ok, and WTF on the Cinema section...the 3 "Ghost Hunt" videos?! They're running around a castle looking for ghosts on some British reality program.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Ohnmigod! Have they put that on their website? It was only on local Southampton telly or else I would have watched it. Aaron Gilbert as Shaggy off Scooby Doo, omg excellent.

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Frankly, it doesn't show them enough.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha, at the end they ask a pendulum swinger, somewhat jokingly, if their new single will go to number one and she says "yes", jokingly, and you see two of them high-five in the background.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

OMG, I can't believe "dream-pop Geddy Lee" wasn't being used as an endorsement way upthread. That sounds so great.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

the new album has been held back for a while.

kate, what did you think of absentee? sorry i didn't see you inside, we were on the top balcony...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Kate, you are a gear nerd, rite? (haw) What is the thing the keyboardist-type fellow is playing in the "Lost in a Melody" video?

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha ha ha, Roxy. :-)

Chuck, I wrote about Absentee on my blog. It was really weird watching them. TBH, I thought they were a bit dull, and rather overpolished. Dan has a really sexy voice (always has) and I liked the keyboard player but the rest of it just seemed... I don't know. Bland? Safe? He's gone a lot more pop than he ever used to be. But somehow it didn't really work. he didn't play nearly enough of the ostrich guitar leads he used to do.

Actually, reminded me a bit of the new Dandy Warhols stuff. Just kind of left with this sense of "why did I have such a crush on these people?"

They're very accessible, though. I'm sure they'll do well in the typical NME/Carling rock veins.

x-post I DON'T KNOW I HAVEN'T SEEN IT, WAAAAHHH!!!

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

You can watch it on the site! Maybe I can do a screen grab.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I feel like I'm missing out on something because I like Delays, but I don't think they are cute at all. If I did, would it change anything, I wonder? The singer is kind of remotely attractive, but that's probably me projecting. Also, he looks like Maggie Simpson.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

To people who have watched the videos on the site (i.e. possibly no one but me): do they REALLY travel everywhere in that cute van?

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Please do me a screen grab because the site crashes my laptop. Sigh. I don't know; I think the brothers Gilbert are hot hot hottttt but you know that I have a thing for little blond pointy-nosed seafarers.

Their attractiveness doens't really affect my enjoyment of the music, it's just an added extra bonus. I mean, their music is so pretty I'd love them if they looked like the Cocteau Twins.

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

haha

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

This is the best I could do:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/delaysthingy4k8copy.jpg

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

A MYSTERY

A new album would be nice, yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh! That thing! There was a discussion of it on the Delays messageboard a while ago. I think it's some kind of Roland sample trigger thing.

― Lady Totteringby-Gently (kate), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Hm. I'd like to find out a bit about it. Thanks!

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Someone just posted a leaked track from the new album on Oink. I'm on the third listen right now, and I'm mildly disappointed. A lot of the atmosphere is missing, and now they're just a rock band with a peculiar singer.

Maybe the rest will be better... right? RIGHT?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 30 December 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

so the new one { you see colours } is out there on the various p2p sites. pretty much ditched the byrds sound i enjoyed so much from the debut. will have to give this a week,but right now it appears the sophomore jinx has struck another blow.

― william harris (drone/a/sore), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Agreed. It sounds like an album full of b-sides.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 13 January 2006 01:26 (twenty years ago)

oh dear. that's a shame.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:25 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

can somebody leak this? gah.

wait, is it out?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

everyone keeps talking about it, it must be out. I need to get myself to a record shop...

― Press Rip And Give Me The MP3 Out Of It (kate), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Mark Radcliffe played their new 45 last week. I was thinking, this is the best 45 ever! Then Stuart Murdoch came on and said, It's the best thing I've heard in ... 3 years. Which is pretty much the same thing.

― the bellefox, Monday, 6 February 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

interesting

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

you will have to wait till..

March 6th
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000E1IGAG

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

That would actually make sense, as The Delays inhabit the textural janglepop harmony demi-world of music where the Pinefox and I actually agree.

(Though another of my friends says it sounds like a-Ha. But what would she know, she is A Goff.)

x-post

― Press Rip And Give Me The MP3 Out Of It (kate), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

On R2 they said it sounded like Giorgio Moroder. I did not hold that against it. I don't know much about who he is, come to think of it.

― the bellefox, Monday, 6 February 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

its queued in slsk

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only fool in the world that still waits for release dates?

― Press Rip And Give Me The MP3 Out Of It (kate), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

i do when i feel it's important. today i don't

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

what is the single?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 6 February 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I know it is called 'Valentine' because they discussed on R2 whether it should be released for Valentine's Day.

I wait for release dates, but then I don't buy things. I suppose I wait for rerelease dates. Sale dates. Fiver dates.

― the bellefox, Monday, 6 February 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm listening to it as we speak, currently about halfway through... and I'm surprised to find myself really enjoying it. With the exception of 'Nearer Than Heaven' I'd pretty much written them off as A.N. Other post-millenial Brit-indie cobblers troupe, but this is a lot more interesting than all that. Reminds me a fair bit of 'Love Is A Wonderful Colour' by The Icicle Works, off the first 12"/80's compilation.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 20 February 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Though I like the LP greatly as you do, I don't see the link to that thumpingly entertaining track at all! McNabb's baritone (or whatever) poperatic delivery, the soul dimension, the crashing keyboards - crikey, it's a world away, isn't it?

Perhaps I have forgotten something.

― the bellefox, Monday, 20 February 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Sonically, yeah - their voices are definitely nothing like each other, and, well... yeah. But in terms of the kind of spirit it has about it, that whole over-reaching romantic thing, it keeps reminding me of that - 80's maximalism, sort of. I dunno, maybe Pete Wylie's a bit closer, though again the voices (and, indeed, the production and instrumentation) are miles away. I might be thinking of men in overcoats in the rain shouting about Dostoevsky. I'm not sure.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 20 February 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Actually, no, it's A-Ha, isn't it? Except his voice isn't as good as Morten Harket's.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 20 February 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm still not digging it as a whole as much as FSG, but I'm working on it. It's quite good, and of course sounds fantastic.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 20 February 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Provincial indie band release disco single about people drowning in Hurricane Katrina!

Song actually "really really good"!

I may listen to the other tracks on the album at some point.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

his falsetto is a lot like Justin Darkness at times. but yes, Dom's post could be mine own.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

Considering their insistence on being called "Delays" and not "the Delays," and considering how closely their singer mimics Lee Mavers' voice (soaring falsetto, voice gets progressively whinier and more awful as it travels down the scales), I'm wondering if their name isn't an exceedingly bad play on "The La's." The La's. De Lays. Whatever.

Regardless, "Valentine" is massively awesome.

― owen, Friday, 7 April 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

It's stunning! The best 45 I have heard in yonks - and Stuart Murdoch feels the same way! Really, the most inspiring sound, in my head.

I have just bought the new LP.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

It seems to lose its stamina towards the end, but the start is very strong indeed: like what all the nu-synth indie bands have been aiming for but missing.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Bought this today after slight hesitation, found that i rather like it. First couple of tracks are the best, but the album as a whole is a good length so i've not noticed it outstaying its welcome.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

I found this picture on a children's tutoring website (on the foreign languages header), and immediately thought "Delays".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/languages-section.gif

Aw, you're right! That's little Greg Gilbert!

― Paint It, Paisley (kate), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

i have been revisiting Faded Seaside Glamour and loving every second of it. this album, at time of release, kind of went under played as i didn't think it was that good. for some reason, probably because i'm such a fan of You See Colours, i have been listening to this album. it's great, much better than i remember, and gets under you skin with repeat listens.

i hope, because the last album was a commercial failure (excellent but hardly sold), they stick around and keep at it.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Still love FSG.

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

valentine sounds heavily influenced by paris angels' "perfume"

― electricsound, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

The new single is very weak, and the video for it is atrocious.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 1 November 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

What's it called?

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

God knows, it's just shite. They ditched Graham Sutton as producer and got Youth in. SENSIBLE.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 2 November 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

Graham Sutton was the greatest member of Delays! Haw.

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 3 November 2007 06:51 (eighteen years ago)

Here's the video: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=20184669

The song is pretty bad, but the video is great...up until the very end, when it becomes even worse than the song.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 3 November 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

New album leaked. Wish I didn't download it.

The Delays (eat that "THE" losers) accomplish in three albums (powerdiving into bombast hell) what Simple Minds needed seven albums to do.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh. Oh well, I guess.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it's really really dreadful.

― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

This is awfulawfulawful.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

very sad at these comments, was looking forward to this.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

Blame Youth.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

It's not just leaked, either; it's out properly in the UK. I know a lot of people who love this band who are gutted with this record.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

wow, not only had i never heard delays, id somehow never heard of them. but all the descriptions of fsg sounded right to me, so i got it. sorry to hear the latest sucks, but fsg is tops!

― Hunt3r, Thursday, 5 June 2008 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

So I just pulled out You See Colours for the first time since 2006 (probably) and it's not as bad as I remember. It has some good songs. Still, when your the band who makes Faded Seaside Glamour your first time out, you may as well just break up immediately after the tour.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 26 July 2009 21:36 (sixteen years ago)

i ended up buying Everything's the Rush and liked it. "Keep It Simple" was the best song and liked others like "Love Made Visible," "No Contest" and "Touch Down."

― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 03:02 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, this was such a disappointment, like, never has a band fallen so far so fast. Don't really get it, they had such potential. But we were talking about British bands that go retro and start to suck after their first album, and this band might be a prime example.

― Your Mother Smells Of Elderflower (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 09:20 (sixteen years ago)

Second album doesn't go retro or drop off, though? Perhaps not quite as good as the first, but it was the 3rd one when they let Youth in to fuck things up that it went badly, badly wrong.

― I can't make my face turn into a heart (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 09:24 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

I find them grating on so many levels and yet I always find myself deleting and downloading / downloading and deleting their songs 'long time coming' and 'valentine' over and over again.

― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Monday, 7 December 2009 07:40 (sixteen years ago)

I should stop the urge to delete and just hide them on a folder for temporal guilty pleasures that I shall only open once every three months.

― feisty, Spanish, girl (Moka), Monday, 7 December 2009 07:42 (sixteen years ago)

"Nearer Than Heaven" is still my most played iTunes track

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 7 December 2009 08:07 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

Listening now to Star Tiger Star Ariel now (terrible title!), and it's the first time I've had an immediately positive impression about a Delays album since the first one. It's still lacking the finesse and nuance of the debut, but they finally learned how to write hearty songs again.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 June 2010 00:21 (fifteen years ago)

What! i knew they got dropped and was wondering if they would release anything else. this is very, very good news and i ended up liking Everything's the Rush though i could be the only one on earth.

― Boo Radley (Bee OK), Monday, 21 June 2010 01:33 (fifteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61uPrhdSe4L._SL500_.jpg

Star Tiger Star Ariel is the fourth studio release from indie rock outfit Delays. The Southampton four-piece build upon their dreamy indie sound, with Greg Gilbert's soaring falsetto maturing into a distinguished vocal here, while the album takes a simplistic approach with the roots of their hometown Southampton a major influence. Reuniting with producer Duncan Lewis, who produced their debut Faded Seaside Glamour, the record was recorded at Rockfield Studios (Queen, Stone Roses).

1. Find A Home (New Forest Shaker)
2. Lost Estate, The
3. Shanghaied
4. Rhapsody
5. May ’45
6. Hold Fire
7. Unsung
8. In Brilliant Sunshine
9. Moment Gone
10. Lakes Can Be Lethal
11. Star Tiger Star Ariel

― Boo Radley (Bee OK), Monday, 21 June 2010 01:37 (fifteen years ago)

Reuniting with producer Duncan Lewis, who produced their debut Faded Seaside Glamour

That being the case, he should become an official member of the band. Without him, they kind of blow.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 June 2010 01:42 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

I happened to run across an update that Delays were touring for the 10th anniversary of FSG, and thought I'd give it a relisten this morning. I truly, fully expected it not to hold up for me, remembering thinking that it sagged in the middle (the quieter, less Graham Sutton-ed numbers), and also just knowing that I'm not as into maudlin foppy music as I was 10 years ago. So I listened to it and kept expecting to be like, well, the first 2 songs are still really solid, then, well, the first 4 songs are a really solid run, and the number kept growing. The quieter songs work more than I realized before, especially when they eventually introduce more layers toward the end of the song (like the way layered, choir-like vocals that sweep in at the end of "No Ending"), the production is A+, the singer is Stevie Nicks, and I still love it, maybe more than ever. I was literally dancing in my apartment with tears in my eyes tbh lol.

10 years for real?!

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 1 June 2014 16:43 (twelve years ago)

Was just thinking about them today. And the time, a bit, probably because I just uploaded a couple of Colder albums to my cloud player...

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 1 June 2014 17:06 (twelve years ago)

Feel like these guys were on the verge of being really big at one point. I thought Valentine was going to be a big hit for them but it didn't quite catch on and then the third album seemed to completely destroy their career. Shame as the first album is really solid and Valentine still sounds like a classic to me.

― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 1 June 2014 17:47 (twelve years ago)

they ditched their producer who was the most important member of the band imo

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Sunday, 1 June 2014 18:10 (twelve years ago)

hey! Yeah, I just listened to this for the first time in nearly 10 years on the strength of this thread. Had p much the same experience as Roxy. Thought I was gonna be ~over them~ but was surprised at how much it held up and how much I still loved them. My love of this band was very much a time and place, but FSG is still a time and place that has a lot of meaning to me. The guy's voice, the production, everything, yeah.

So I dug out the second album, and though it doesn't quite have the same punch to it, it's also a lot better than I remembered it. (I remembered it as Valentine and a bunch of filler, and me very disappointed that Lost In A Melody (?) wasn't on it.) But I did enjoy the whole thing, despite or maybe because of the whole "sounding like the 80s is really hip and fashionable" production on it? It annoyed, back in the mid 00s when everything went through that tedious "sound like a new wave record from 81" production filter, but outside of that context, it sounds more Delays-ish and less mid 00s fashion.

I am not going to besmirch my good pure memories by downloading the third album or whatever, since you guys seem pretty resolute in your hatred of it.

― Branwell with an N, Sunday, 1 June 2014 20:35 (twelve years ago)

Third album blew. Fourth album was them being a good band (with their original producer) again.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 1 June 2014 20:43 (twelve years ago)

Everything's the Rush is not bad at all. there are some good songs on there and i feel was overlooked at the time. the next album Star Tiger Star Ariel was not good.

so i disagree with Johnny.

― Bee OK, Sunday, 1 June 2014 20:43 (twelve years ago)

Hmmmmmm. I might investigate the one with their original producer if I get a chance.

― Branwell with an N, Sunday, 1 June 2014 20:50 (twelve years ago)

Looks like they lost most of their fan base after the third album.

Faded Seaside Glamour (April 2004) – UK #17
You See Colours (March 2006) – UK #24
Everything's the Rush (May 2008) - UK #26
Star Tiger, Star Ariel (June 2010)- UK #107

Had no idea it did that badly.

― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 1 June 2014 21:44 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

Greg Gilbert, the singer in Delays, is very ill with Cancer right now, and his fiancee has just put up a gofundme as there is no treatment available for him on the NHS

https://www.gofundme.com/give4greg

Delays are not really in the public eye right now, but I think there are plenty of people out there who have fond memories of Long Time Coming / Nearer Than Heaven / etc. and would like to help out, so if anyone knows how to spread the word further, it would be very much welcomed.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 18:28 (nine years ago)

this fucking sucks, 2016 can't end fast enough. still love the first three albums and really ended up enjoying Everything's the Rush, going to dig that one out tomorrow. could not get into their last album Star Tiger, Star Ariel though i did try.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 22 December 2016 02:47 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

https://open.spotify.com/track/1UgMhIKuVfY11RzB5jeF80

this guy is a dead ringer for greg

― calstars, Friday, 27 January 2017 03:03 (nine years ago)

four years pass...

Greg Gilbert, singer / guitar player with the band Delays, and fine artist, aged 45.

― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length),

fuck cancer.

r.i.p.

― mark e, Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:13 (four years ago)

My brother @GregDelays x pic.twitter.com/GMUM1pe3SK
— Aaron Gilbert (@AaronDelays) September 30, 2021

― primate marmite (NickB), Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:26 (four years ago)

Yes, fuck cancer.

Greg was a friend - not a particularly close friend, but still just one of the most talented and most kind people I've ever known (he was also a brilliant artist) - I haven't actually seen him in more than 15 years, but unlike many people I would consider much closer friends, we kept in touch on social media even while he was so ill. We all knew this was coming for such a long time - he ever published a pamphlet about dying three whole years ago - but it's still really shaken me tonight.

― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:27 (four years ago)

Hugs to you, Cam

― primate marmite (NickB), Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:30 (four years ago)

One of my favourite singers. RIP Greg.

― Kim, Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:43 (four years ago)

liked this from Tim Jonze in the guardian today

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/01/greg-gilbert-delays-tribute

― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 October 2021 09:32 (four years ago)

one year passes...

Interview with Aaron in the guardian, it's a good one.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/10/aaron-gilbert-delays-interview-death-of-brother-greg-gilbert

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 09:02 (three years ago)

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