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- Summary: The British trio from Manchester releases their debut album of dance rock.
- Record Label: Dangerbird
- Genre(s): Rock, Dance
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| Doubt | |
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| Wanting meaning, wanting more than the same things Wanting everything, just to start at the ending I found another face to show Just because what you... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 12 out of 17
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Mixed: 5 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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On the downside, Acolyte certainly has its derivative moments, although it could be reasonably argued that there are infinitely worse people to sound like than New Order. On the plus side, they've certainly gleaned how to pull off New Order's most celebrated trick: melding dancefloor electronics and rock.
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Delphic have started 2010 as we all hope it will go on - with superb music.
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From a palette of familiar reference points, they've created a fresh, vital sound that could prove to be the basis of an impressive career.
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It is during this fifteen-minute stretch that the album transcends its familiar, blokey, mad-for-it Mancunian template and, though you've heard all these tricks before, achieves something charming, familiar, fucking good-and this is the level on which Delphic needs to operate more often if they're going to wring a lasting impression from this sound.
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There's enough originality to warrant a second look, though, evoking the epic soul of the infamous The Haçienda club with percussive clatter overseen by techno producer Ewan Pearson.
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Dec 13, 2010Perhaps they're learning that keeping things pared down to three minutes as opposed to eight might just mean their next effort is a classic. For now, the blueprint is there. It's just a case of tinkering with the numbers.
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It's just that it feels so characterless and anonymous.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Sep 4, 2010
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MarkB.Jan 26, 2010
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Jan 7, 2011
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