Delorean have stuck together. They started the band as teenagers in the Basque Country town of Zarautz in Spain, informed by a love of hi-hat-frenzied dance music, then moved to Barcelona, where they fully embraced carefree Mediterranean club music on their celebrated 2010 LP, Subiza. After touring heavily in support of Subiza the band built their own studio in their adopted hometown of Barcelona - looking for a semblance of normalcy to record their follow-up, Apar. However, a failed relationship, a national financial crisis and an embrace of a more sophisticated relationship to sound recording and songwriting push the stories and dynamics of this album to a deeper more complex place. Lead singer, lyricist and bassist Ekhi Lopeteg calls Apar simply their \"big production album\", but through his articulate lens, the record’s emotional undercurrent, and the band\
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DELOREAN
Delorean started as teenagers in the Basque Country town of Zarautz in Spain, informed by a love of the beach, of open spaces, and of the new rave sound washing up on their shores from the UK. 2010's Subiza is a universally acclaimed high-water mark, where they stepped out as a band who were unafraid to chase the groove. The unabashed optimism and kaleidoscopic production of Subiza remain one of the highest heights of euphoric indie disco-pop. Inspired by graveyard crosses built by the Basque artist Jorge Oteiza, the album's cover depicts two beams of granite. Vocalist/bassist Ekhi Lopetegi discovered Oteiza's work while researching Basque art from the last 50 years. "I looked at the image of that cross, and I thought it was a beautiful vis...
