A fresh flowering of florid, ethereal future-pop.
Sumptuous West Coast harmonies; cloud-busting falsetto vocals full of beauteous yearning and splendid desolation; synth atmospherics that could be described as a 'cathedral of sound' if the use of such phrases weren't punishable by death under the Anti-Shoegazing Act of 1991. Signed to Rough Trade at the dawn of 2003, as unlikely label-fellows to The Strokes and The Libertines, Delays wasted no time in proving their significance. Their debut single 'Nearer Than Heaven' - essentially The Cocteau Twins and The La's making a joint attempt to scale the north face of the world's highest chorus - cropped up in Mel Smith's movie 'Blackball' while it's follow-up - the sixties sugar rush of 'Hey Girl' - dented the Top 40 last July. What's more, a second half of 2003 on the road with the likes of Tim Burgess, The Coral, McAlmont & Butler,The Thrills and Sleepy Jackson paid major dividends when third single 'Long Time Coming' crashed the Top Twenty at Number 16 in January 2004.
This summer the band successfully headlined the new band stages at Glastonbury and V festival, as well as playing T in the Park, Oxygen, Fleadh, Isle of White, and other European festivals.
"Delays are the first British band in a decade to lay claim to the Guitar Pop throne last occupied by the Stone Roses" - The Guardian
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