Performer Notes

Personnel: Greg Gilbert (vocals, guitar); Aaron Gilbert (vocals, keyboards, programming, background vocals); Colin Fox (vocals, bass instrument, background vocals); Rowly (drums).
Audio Mixer: Graham Sutton.
Recording information: DustSucker Sound; Moles Studio Bath; Moles Studio, Bath, Somerset, England; Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales.
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."

Album: Faded Seaside Glamour
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Wanderlust
2)	Nearer Than Heaven
3)	Long Time Coming
4)	Bedroom Scene
5)	No Ending
6)	You Wear the Sun
7)	Hey Girl
8)	Stay Where You Are
9)	There's Water Here
10)	Satellites Lost
11)	One Night Away
12)	On

Album: Faded Seaside Glamour
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Wanderlust
2)	Nearer Than Heaven
3)	Long Time Coming
4)	Bedroom Scene
5)	No Ending
6)	You Wear the Sun
7)	Hey Girl
8)	Stay Where You Are
9)	There's Water Here
10)	Satellites Lost
11)	One Night Away
12)	On