Blog: State Magazine

While it's still far from the inevitable backlash guaranteed to smack any ferociously hyped band in the noggin, Delphic has just dropped a crafted, inspiriting debut that is curiously getting a bit of a drubbing for being derivative whilst being enthusiastically praised for doing it so damn well. While fleeting comparisons to other dance-rock kids like Klaxons, Friendly Fires and Bloc Party feel arbitrary, Manchester's new, synth-infatuated prodigal band does owe a heavy debt to the Factory Records crew, namely New Order. You might say that Acolyte is the album that we'd [...]