Delta Sleep

Thirteen years into what started as an earnest foray in music-making, British rock quartet Delta Sleep have risen to the forefront of the genre with tracks that continue to push its boundaries. Continuously surprising their listeners with every release by constantly tweaking and perfecting their sound, the band’s expansive repertoire defies to be constrained by any strict sub-genre or category, molding their sound into something that goes beyond the labels of just math-rock.

In 2019, the band’s second full length album Ghost City saw them approach their intelligent songwriting with guitar driven melodies over jazz-influenced grooves, which garnered them considerable support from fervent fans and critics alike. The record’s success saw them land #1 on the Bandcamp Rock Chart and reach over 5M streams on Spotify by the time the year was out.

The result of this daring, future-facing process catapulted them to stages across three continents, touring the US & Canada, parts of Asia such as Japan, The Philippines, Thailand and Singapore, as well as hitting Europe on Mineral’s 20th anniversary tour. It was on this same European tour where the band recorded their surprise EP, Younger Years.

In 2020, the band released the live album Soft Sounds, coupled with a video series that was filmed over the course of four years around the world, featuring intimate unplugged performances of songs taken from their back catalogue. Over the summer of 2020, Delta Sleep locked themselves away in Ireland to work on their third album, Spring Island, released in 2021 on their own label, Sofa Boy Records. Touching on themes of global warming and humanity’s impact on the world, this conceptual album falls right into Delta Sleep’s territory: bleak lyrical content sitting atop a bed of dizzying, uplifting and complex grooves, captivating instrumentation and sweeping ambience.