Delphic Talk About Producer Search

Exclusive: Manchester band speak to ClashMusic

Manchester dance rock newcomers Delphic have spoken to ClashMusic about their search for a producer.

Emerging last year with a string of fantastic singles, Delphic seemed almost too good to be true. From Manchester, the band’s dance rock was given the seal of approval by rejuvenated label R&S who released their debut single.

Retreating from the limelight just long enough to work on their debut album, Delphic struggled to find a producer on their wavelength. Toying with the idea of producing the material themselves, the band were almost torn apart by internal friction.

“We’d been to a few different producers, and to be honest this time last year we were panicking” singer Rick Boardman revealed. “We’d written the bulk of the record and attempted to record it.”

“We were confident about doing it ourselves, and we tried to do it ourselves but it didn’t quite work. We tried to work with Tom Rowland from The Chemical Brothers, who is obviously one of our heroes. What he did was brilliant but to be honest it wasn’t right for us. The same with Paul Hartnoll from Orbital. Then we thought ‘oh God what will we do’? Then we packed up all our things and went to Liverpool to get some tracks down.”

Continuing, the singer revealed that the pressures of attempting to record the album nearly tore the band apart. “We really struggled to finish it, until we were all arguing and almost ready to give up. Even our manager was struggling to calm us down, because we just couldn’t get across what we wanted.”

“Then someone from R&S got hold of the stems from one of our early demos and sent them to Ewan Pearson. Then we got this email with the mix attached and listened to it, then breathed a sigh of relief. Ewan had just got it, really understood what we were about. So we packed up and went to Berlin.”

To read the full interview with Delphic click HERE!

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