Untouched: Delphic – Counterpoint

Delphic- Counterpoint (waiting for approval to post)- enjoy the video (below) for now.

Delphic- This Momentary Monitor (Remix) (Link 2)

And on the Sixth Day, God created Manchester.

Manchester has rested on its laurels for a long time: it’s consistently proven the breeding-ground for the greatest bands that England has ever produced – count them: Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, Magazine, New Order, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Oasis. Since 1996, this city has turned out no-one that has dared to really reach for the stars through the northern smog, and they’re long overdue a truly great band (put your hand down, Liam from The Courteeners, we’ve seen your CV and the jury is still out until your next album).

Which makes it seem particularly unlikely that some local upstarts will dig up the long-dead corpse of Madchester rave and re-animate it with the wide-eyed dreamer’s soul that has characterised so much of Manc’s best music. “Counterpoint” reaches for the spirit of legendary house music haven The Hacienda – which, in a horrific act of architectural necrophilia has been turned into a block of flats for local yuppies – and by and large it succeeds. If anyone doubts the sense of geographic place that fires this music, you need only check out the video of the band marching down the abandoned industrial warehouses, estates and moors that define the city, and the lyrics: “late at night/I run through streets and empty corridors/I find my counterpoint”.

They don’t share many reference points, but Delphic manage the same tricky feat as LCD Soundsystem in squeezing emotion from music made with processed sounds; there is a beating heart buried under the vertiginous towers of synth that this song spirals upwards on, and the ghostly-voiced breakdown at the end evokes that feeling of being absolutely wasted and incredibly alone in a club that has been done before by a famous Manchester band (don’t make me say it). For now, think a sprightly New Order covering “So Here We Are” by Bloc Party.

Somewhere up above, Saint Tony Wilson is looking down and smiling on these boys. Counterpoint is right.

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