Delphic: 'This Momentary'

Being from Manchester and playing indie music is either a position of great privilege (you are instantly associated with Manchester greats such as The Smiths, Oasis, New Order, Happy Mondays, etc) or it can be a point of sore concern (you are instantly associated with Manchester greats such as The Smiths, Oasis, New Order, Happy Mondays, etc). This depends upon your feelings towards these feted groups of course - whether their supposed lineage has helped or hindered Delphic’s progress is unclear.

They certainly don’t suffer too terribly from ill-comparisons to those aforementioned bands. Second single 'This Momentary' is sufficiently distant from those past sounds to distinguish them immediately.

The lead vocal melody, however, does the song absolutely no favours, discouraging the listener from foraging further into the surprisingly rewarding dance mixup. Circling a dank two-or-three notes which are so close together in pitch that only a fairly attentive ear would differentiate between them.

By the time the light-techno beat arrives the track succeeds in reinventing itself; throwing off the dirt grey sluggishness of the percussion-free intro and giving into the relentless pound of the bass drum. This is, eventually, convincing stuff. The weight of recent history is shaken off and, what continues to sound like the future is Delphic’s saving grace.



Released on 31st August 2009 by Kitsune.

Written by Richard Wood.