Delta Sleep
W/ Michael Cera Palin & Computer
Doors 6pm | Show 7pm | Advance $26 / Day of Show $30 + Dice Fees | 16+
Delta Sleep is a British math rock quartet from Canterbury, Kent, England. Formed in 2010, Delta Sleep is driven by a desire to create fun and original, forward-thinking music. Their songs combine guitar driven melodies, held together by jazz influenced percussion and relentless bass, topped with sprinkles of passionate shouts and lulling chants.
The thing that humanity clings to is hope. In the darkness, light will prevail. In uncertain times, prosperity will ultimately endure: without it, there is simply nothing. On ‘Blue Garden’, Delta Sleep’s 4th studio album, out 27th September on Sofa Boy Records & Wax Bodega (US), the band find themselves digging beneath the overwhelming darkness of the world to find just a glimmer of light —tying in similar themes across their expansive back catalogue tobecome what is perhaps their heaviest record to date. ‘Blue Garden’ was recorded at the tail end of 2023 at Daft Studiosin Belgium with Mark Roberts (Black Peaks, Toska, The Physics House Band) after a year of huge tours across America, Asia and Australia. Where previous albums came together quickly, with all four members enteringthe studio armed with songs demoed, tracked and recorded live, this time the band started with a completely blank page. They opted to approach new material collectively within the space of two and a half weeks, jumping at the opportunity to play with new instrumentation at their fingertips to introduce electronic samples and synths. Given the time to really hyper focus on the production resulted in the scope to draw inspiration from the realm of fantasy and the real world that has permeated itsway into the band’ssound both sonically and visually.But it’s ‘Blue Garden’s’lyrical themes which trulyrazesit into darkness. Underscored by the horrors unfolding in Palestine, it serves as a form of catharsis to a pure sense of helplessness. “So slowly, I can focus on my needs, to feel good in my body / Because in the end it’s all we got / As we watch the worldburn, can’t you see that we’re burning”sings DevinYüceil on ‘Slow Burn’, posing the question of how you come to terms about dealing with traumatic moments outside of your own personal sphere that you feel powerless and despair.