Album Review
Delorentos – You Can Make SoundDelorentos – You Can Make Sound

I have been in love with this album for a little while now, so being asked to review it is far from being a chore. I remember finding Delorentos on Last.fms player – I'd searched a slightly obscure Irish indie band and from then on got stuck in a loop of quite uninspiring Irish indie bands, however these chaps stuck out. It was the fantastically catchy “Hallucinations” that initially won me over, but before you make it to that slightly Franz Ferdinand masterpiece, the album opens with the fantastic “Sanctuary” and “Secret.” These guys are indie – but let's clear this up – not in a plucky wonky Foals kind of way, and not in a linear happy-snappy Two Door Cinema Club kind of way, nor in a disgustingly-close-to-becoming-shoegaze MGMT kind of way, but instead a more than listenable softer indie, packed full of rhythm and melody and catchy choruses galore – in fact it's probably somewhere between indie and alternative rock.

Faultless. I love it. Other stand out tracks are “Body Cold” and the penultimate track “You Can Make Sound” which presents itself as a really epic sounding song. The explosive cymbals and heavy reverb allow for a really beautiful intro, which is the chorus also. And so what if it goes very slightly Orson for the verses? The chorus makes up for anything. If BoyZone had used this chorus in all their songs I could forgive them for what they did to the charts in the 1990s.



The album finishes on one of only two slower songs on the album, and if I'm honest, I'm not feeling them so much. Fair enough, you want some variation. But they do the rest better. Really fucking well, in fact. Top cheese.

5/5

Review by Thom
 Band Members
Delorentos - Band
Kieran McGuinness
Ross McCormick
Rónan Yourell
Níal Conlan
 Track Listing
1. Sanctuary
2. Secret
3. Hallucinations
4. You Say You'll Never Love Her
5. Leave Me Alone
6. Editorial
7. Body Cold
8. Let the Light Go Out
9. Soulmate
10. You Can Make Sound
11. I Remember
 Band Related Links
Delorentos Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?