DeLix - Sold

Single review by kev@thesoundofconfusion.co.uk

If we've learnt anything about the new acts we've excitedly posted about today, it's that, despite the fact that only about a dozen "artists" seem to be allowed to get in the charts, pop music is in a very good place right now. Whether Manchester's DeLix are happy to be labelled as "pop" we don't know, maybe they'd prefer electronica or something more alternative. In truth they are alternative, an alternative form of pop to the auto-tuned ringtone disasters currently making a mockery of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of the human ear. This is not why this complicated and sensitive organ developed, the fragile set up of bones, canals and eardrum developed to benefit us, not to enrage us.

So we'll repeat ourselves and say yet again that we hope that sooner or later whoever decides what becomes popular (perhaps it's the shape-shifting lizards that David Icke's always on about, it must be some unknown evil force) is gradually killed off in favour of people with taste. Lord knows that the public deserve better and in 'Sold' they get a bang up-to-date sounding piece of trip-hoppy chillwave that sounds current, subtle, vital and lush, all whilst being created by the same machinery that spews out the mass produced music-based substitute that rots our brains. Keep on making tunes, DeLix, the world deserves better pop.



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