Review: Delorean @ The Lexington, July 2nd.
Posted by: dave
One of the most definable sounds of the last year has been the rise of ‘glo-fi’, that mottled, blur-edged woozy synth-pop so expertly dished up by the likes of Washed Out and Toro Y Moi. Tonight’s band Delorean have taken this template, jumped in a gull-wing-doored time machine and thrown it together with a bit of Cut Copy’s rthythm and a dose of Ibiza synth to give us a sound that is very much summer 2010.
We’d seen Delorean at the Legion last year, after the launch of their Ayrton Senna EP. Then, the crowd (although large) was almost exclusively Spanish, so it was indicative of Delorean’s growing reputation to see that the sell-out at the Lexington was a much more varied bunch.
The new album, Subiza, was rattled-through in it’s entirety, with ‘Grow’ and ‘Stay Close’ providing the undoubted highlights. Keyboardist Unai Lazcano might have scooped the prize for best moves in the house if it wasn’t for some impromptu crowd-surfing from a couple of gents during the head-bouncing ‘Come Wander’.
Searching for constructive criticism though, it was as irritating as it was unnecessary to hear a George Lamb-style foghorn repeatedly used between songs. For a band with three albums under their Balearic belts, it was surprising that they’ve not been advised to cut it out. Subiza is an album that ought to be right up there in the year-end Best Of… lists, and if they could control their horniness they’d have a show to absolutely back it up.
