Collections (Delphic album)

Background and recording

The band worked on the album between late 2010 and Autumn 2012, first in their own studio in Manchester, followed by production work from Tim Goldsworthy at Monnow Valley Studio in Wales, the Unit 3 studio in Bristol and Ben Allen in his studio in Atlanta. The cover art was created by Vhils. A video trailer for the album was released in November 2012. The album will be preceded by the single "Baiya".

Keyboardist Rick Boardman explained the delay since the band's first album: "We'd been touring for two years. We were just creatively burnt out." In an interview with NME, he went into further detail: "We didn't want to release something that we would mean we could just go back on tour and have fun. We just want to make a really great record."

Reception

Collections received mixed reviews from critics. At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 59, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".NME writer David Renshaw called it "confident and professional" but said that it would be unlikely to appeal to fans of either dance music or guitar bands. In reviewing it for the BBC, Ben Hewitt summarised the album as "on the whole, Collections is a misfire and proof that, sometimes, re-inventing the wheel doesn’t always reap rewards – especially if you were already journeying more gracefully from A-to-B than most of your contemporaries."

Personnel