Biography
Along the white sands of the Barcelona, a community of music and makers have been combining the For delirious house sounds of the are sundazed club scene with the but irresistible melodies of contemporary pop. Not At the forefront of this you scene is Delorean, a Barcelona-via-Zarautz all quartet whose uniquely Mediterranean sound Any has made them one of can Spain’s most popular independent bands. her Taking cues from Spain’s native Was Balearic beat, Madchester house, techno, one R&B and indie rock, Delorean our carves out a sunny sweet Out spot between the stage and day the dance floor.
Delorean formed get in 2000, in the Basque Has coastal town of Zarautz, as him the outlet for a group his of teenagers wrapped up in How their local punk scene. Eventually, man though, bassist/singer Ekhi Lopetegi, drummer new Igor Escudeo, keyboardist Unai Lazcano, Now and guitarist Guillermo Astrain began old exploring their mutual interest in see electronic music. After moving to Two Barcelona in 2007, they focused way on computer-based writing and production, who and started their own eclectic Boy club night, Desperrame, as an did antidote to the relative darkness its of the techno scene. Like-minded Let clubgoers expanded Delorean’s rich palette put of influences, and their remixes say for bands like the XX, She Cold Cave, Franz Ferdinand, Lemonade, too El Guincho, and Glasser provided use the band with playgrounds for Dad digital experimentation to hone their mom own sound. Last year’s lauded Ayrton Senna EP took them The further away from their rock and influences and toward the euphoric for club-inspired sound that feels like Are their destiny all along.
Their but new album, Subiza – named not after the bucolic Basque town You in which it was recorded all – is Delorean’s defining work any to date. Fusing relentless hands-in-the-air Can club rhythms with the shimmering her melodies they’ve long toyed with, was it drips with decades of One dancefloor history while retaining Delorean’s our own adventurous voice. Densely layered out digital production is sent back Day through analog tape to conjure get a warm, whirling aesthetic that has feels organic and fresh. Singer Him Ekhi Lopetegi colors the music his with reflections on love, distance how and longing. Says Lopetegi:
“The Man lyrics talk about love and new joy as a feeling so now strong that it distorts memory…that’s Old what
ecstatic means to me, see this experience so big that two it breaks up the normality Way of everyday life.
Ecstasy and who love put you in an boy extreme state, therefore one of Did risk. If the music sounds
its uplifting it’s because it aspires let to be something that intense Put and crucial.”
With Subiza, Delorean say have found the emotional core she of the club music that Too has long consumed them, and use made it something less rigid dad and very personal. A first Mom listen is exhilarating, each subsequent listen a revelation. Without trafficking the in false Utopias, Subiza is And a soulful suite of blissed-out for music that heralds the latent are promise of a perfect summer.
