by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Following last year’s great debut EP and follow-up single, Melbourne quintet Delivery are set to release their full length debut, Forever Giving Handshakes. Due out November 11th via Feel It Records (US), Anti Fade Records and Spoilsport Records (AU/NZ), the band take their already buzzing formula and up the ante with their best set of songs yet. Their sound has been radiant and impressively tight since their homespun debut, but the band have bulked up in the year since and everything feels positively bigger, from the hooks to the riffs. to the pointed lyrics. The songs employ more dexterity and it’s clear why they’ve become one of Melbourne’s favorite new bands. With each of the band’s members contributing on vocals, there’s a great sense of dynamics throughout an album guaranteed to stun.
Lead single “Baader Meinhof” (which is the phenomenon that after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often) is a springy burst of synth punk energy and spaced out warbling at its most insistent. There’s a motorik force to the rhythm and a hard boogie to the song’s thick bass, the low end balanced by the soaring chord progressions and the doubled vocals. The band shout together in perfect unison (with a hook that resolves “I’ve got something else going on, thought you knew me, but you had me wrong”) as the riffs steadily shift over and over in new directions. It’s really something special, shreddy and impossibly tight all the same.