Delorentos: 'You Can Make Sound'

Irish four piece Delorentos have already scored chart-topping success in their homeland. However, having suffered the collapse of their record label and the departure and subsequent return of singer and principal songwriter Kieran McGuiness, they are only now mounting an assault on this side of the Irish Sea with this their debut UK release.

Seemingly aiming for the kind of sublime, soaring rock made by Arcade Fire. 'You Can Make Sound' is an album full of youthful, unsubtle angst and bluster that strives for emotional transcendence but ultimately yields little more than a hollow, empty dreariness. There is something oddly dated about these songs: opener 'Sanctuary' with its big chiming arpeggiated riffs, crashing drums and yearning half-angelic, half-seedy stadium rock vocal is reminiscent of early noughties band The Delays, whilst lead single 'S.E.C.R.E.T' is something of a glam-tinged energetic stomp that is melodic enough whilst it lasts but is soon forgotten.

'Hallucinations' has a dark, menacing, stalking quality that is not too dissimilar to the current crop of emo/metal bands. 'You Say You’ll Never Love Her' is a pleasant enough ballad about teen infatuations, but it has a distinct T4 On The Beach texture to it. Better is 'Let The Light Go Out' which has a Glasvegas-style languid broodiness to it, but perhaps best of all is the closer 'I Remember', a genuinely affecting piano ballad about loss, regret and nostalgia.

The problem for Delorentos is that, unlike say Kings Of Leon, they seem unable to fully inhabit these songs and as a consequence 'You Can Make Sound' feels like the result of a free recording session won via a school Battle Of The Bands competition - it carries an aura of boys masquerading as adults.



Released on 5th April 2010 by Delorecords.

Written by Sam Monk.