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Delmer Darion
Delmer Darion
country: UK
genre: Electronic
styles: Ambient Rock, Idm, Doom Folk
Tall Vision-of-the-Voyage
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Tall Vision-of-the-Voyage, the astonishing second album by Delmer Darion, is a collection of stories about human spirit, ambition, and the reckless naivety of great adventures. Written in the spirit of scientific romance, by way of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires, it’s an album of two divergent halves. The first half swans through dizzying tales of human achievement backed up by hypnotic blends of shoegaze, ambient, industrial alt-rock and doom-folk as a carousel of vocalists – Kiran Leonard, Bingo Fury, Anna B Savage and Slaughter Beach, Dog – bring their archives to life.
The album’s second half features the band’s most ambitious work to date: an 18-minute spoken word epic rooted in Arthurian legend, about the tragic sinking of the HMY Iolaire off the coast of Stornoway in 1919. Collaborating with Guatemalan-born cellist and composer Mabe Fratti (named one of Pitchfork’s Artists changing the future of music in 2023) and award-winning Welsh actor Morfydd Clark, best known for her lead roles in A24’s Saint Maud and the Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, Delmer Darion’s accounts of heartache and hopelessness hold endless wonder, exploring our relationship with music and literature in times of crisis. ‘Iolaire’ is a reckoning of how, in spite of our grand sense of place on Earth and in the universe, nature can still brutalise us.
Tall Vision-of-the-Voyage lands three years after the duo’s debut album Morning Pageants found a slow-burning critical acclaim, praised as a “rare paradigm shift in underground music” by Electronic Sound, and named “one of the most transfixing listens of the year” by Clash.
Delmer Darion’s one consistency is the total intrigue that follows their creations, existing like curios plucked from thin air or deeply excavated. Nothing else sounds remotely like them.
latest releases
Single
Iolaire
out on September 11, 2023
via Practise Music
Single
White Dawn Fog (Ft Anna B Savage)
out on July 05, 2023
via Practise Music
Single
Half Mile Down (ft Slaughter Beach, Dog)
out on May 17, 2023
via Practise Music
Single
First Photograph of the Nebula in Orion (feat. Spencer Radcliffe)
out on January 19, 2023
via Practise Music
Single
Swallowed the Stars (Delmer Darion Remix)
out on February 18, 2022
via Hertha Records
LP
Morning Pageants Remixes
out on November 12, 2021
via Practise Music
