Barcelona’s Delorean mine a territory between dance music and independent pop, producing a sound that is distinctly theirs. This is the record it took Delorean 10 years to evolve into, a fusion of dance music (including their native Spanish Balearic house) and contemporary pop music. The dance-club rhythms and airy melodies they’ve toyed with in the past are fused and textured, making for a deeply obsessive, hypnotic album that retains the easy appeal of great pop music. Looking at 30+ years of club music history with fresh eyes, Delorean have made an album that is dense and soulful. Our first listen to Subiza was exhilarating, every subsequent listen is a revelation.
ABOUT
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...
