Album: Faded Seaside Glamour

Song Title

Time

Wanderlust

Nearer Than Heaven

Long Time Coming

Bedroom Scene

No Ending

You Wear the Sun

Hey Girl

Stay Where You Are

There's Water Here

10)

Satellites Lost

11)

One Night Away

12)

Album: Faded Seaside Glamour

Song Title

Time

Wanderlust

Nearer Than Heaven

Long Time Coming

Bedroom Scene

No Ending

You Wear the Sun

Hey Girl

Stay Where You Are

There's Water Here

10)

Satellites Lost

11)

One Night Away

12)

Performer Notes

Delays: Greg Gilbert (vocals, guitar); Aaron Gilbert (keyboards, programming, background vocals); Colin Fox (bass instrument, background vocals); Rowly (drums).
A million miles from the moody intensity of the more angst-ridden wing of Britpop (Radiohead, Elbow, Muse), the Delays hearken back instead to the innocent jangle of UK pop-rock circa 1990 (the Lightning Seeds, the La's). The quartet's debut album, FADED SEASIDE GLAMOUR, is fully as popwise as the best of Coldplay, but the Delays aren't embarrassed to jump in with both feet for a big, bold hook or emotional production flourish (hey, neither were the Beatles). The sound revolves around singer/songwriter/guitarist Greg Gilbert, whose boyish tenor and crafty compositional skills are the stuff of which pop dreams are made. Gilbert's '60s-friendly guitar sparkles through the songs, buoyed by Aaron Gilbert's orchestral keyboard backgrounds and a rhythm section refreshingly free of garage-rock limitations. The time for sparking pure-pop revolutions may be long past, but that doesn't preclude reveling in the lushness of FADED SEASIDE GLAMOUR.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (p.179) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[G]enteel, eminently tuneful..."

Rolling Stone (p.101) - "Singer-songwriter Greg Gilbert of new British quartet the Delays has a stratospheric voice that spears the sweet sadness of FADED SEASIDE GLAMOUR."

Uncut (5/04, p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[The album] swoops in like a trilling, shimmering, frankly feminized confection of the angelically unexpected....FADED SEASIDE GLAMOUR is an of-the-moment event of its own unlikely making."

Magnet (p.86) - "FADED SEASIDE GLAMOUR is essentially what the beach would sound like if it had a record deal..."

CMJ (p.31) - "Greg Gilbert defines the band's sound just seconds into the album with his unearthly and staggeringly delicate falsetto, which effortlessly careens through the catchy melodies and spot-on harmonies featured in nearly every song."