Blue Garden
by Delta Sleep
Robert
Robert
MCR by way of math rock. A riveting evolution of Delta Sleep sound, pop punk prog yes please!
Favorite track: Illuminator.
Dan Thale
Dan Thale
Absolutely incredible record! It's bonkers how good this is from the instrumentation, to the lyrics, recording, everything.
mothsign
mothsign
You assholes really going to make us wait until October after this resolve?
Favorite track: Sunchaser.
CD.Jes
CD.Jes
I know this album is going to be a banger, this band never misses. I fucking love you guys and how real you are.
Favorite track: Glow.
WadeMix
WadeMix
This track is evolving from the signature sound that we have come to love from Delta Sleep. I can't wait for the full release.
Favorite track: Figure in the Dark.
Gonk Nodge
Gonk Nodge
it's almost impossible for a band to keep putting out quality release after quality release the way these dudes have for over a decade now. they are an unstoppable force. Incredible work as always. 💙
Favorite track: Illuminator.
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Dawn
03:11
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Don't say that you're believers
When you’re punching in the dark
While censoring receivers
That would propagate the heart
Are you blind to all the creatures
That could lead you to the light
With an open disposition
And a sense of what is right
Can’t say that you're a leader
When there's bloodshed in your eyes
In a chamber of deceivers
Sending bullets through the night
How I long to see a future
In a land that only cries
For the beauties that we're given
And a peace that never dies
(In a free free Palestine)
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Slow Burn
04:24
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Heartbeat, I’ve been feeling you lately
Digging into my psyche
Feeding into my need to be
Solo. I’ve been taking it real slow
Cause for a year I’ve been real low
Getting used to my company
Please note, that your voice can make make worlds grow
And the garden will bloom hope
Leaving all that has passed to lie
Slowly, I can focus on my needs
To feel good in my body
‘Cause in the end it is all we got
As we watch the world burn,
Can’t you see that we’re burning
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The Distance
04:04
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Call tonight, I’ll stay up even if it’s late.
I admit. Been losing grip of this in many ways.
Find a way beyond the distance aiming for the day.
Where every night, I fall asleep with you.
You’ve got the key to open up my weary heart.
You wanna have it all please do.
For our love it’s justified, I just want you by my side always.
The world is reaching non-existence, it’s fading more each day.
If time will end, then I wanna end with you.
It’s hard not to feel estranged, with distance in the way.
Tonight I will walk it with you.
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Toe Stepper
04:34
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I’ve been here floating on the edge that I didn’t notice
How all the darkness in my head has come to surface
It’s not right, it's not right my friend
How could you leave me here? (to linger)
It’s not kind. You’re not kind my friend
After everything I give
I met myself the other day, and I tried escaping
My shadow coming out to play, I cannot shake it
It’s not right, it’s not right my friend
Are you to blind to see?
Your not kind, just be kind my friend
How easy it could be.
I lost all sense of time
When shadows came to life
It’s not right, it’s not right my friend
How could you leave me here (to linger)
It’s not kind. Just be kind my friend
After everything I give
I lost all sense of time, when shadows came to life
They pieced apart my life, and fed it to the night
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(light)
00:46
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Glow
05:22
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Speak soon
I need some headroom for my mental
In a big room
And a gold spoon on the mantle
Hear the night bring the terror
Through the voices muffled into my sheets
While the earthlings are retreating
From the right thing to do
Talk soon
I need a space that I can feel
Feel real cool
And a big spoon for my cereal
But when you’re cold and alone
You got nowhere to go except your head
But it hurts a lot
And it never stops
Feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders
So it goes…
And it hurts alot, and it doesn’t stop.
Lay low
I need a halo on my exit
With a bright glow
And a gold spoon for my family
When the night brings the terror
In the fighting muted under my sheets
While the earth is in regression
from the heart strings
Cold and alone you got nowhere to go
Except your head but it hurts a lot (and it never stops)
Building a wall that sequesters my home, and so it goes…
And it hurts a lot, and it doesn’t stop
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Illuminator
03:46
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I know you’re tired of carrying
Your shadows to the light. Over again
Despite it all, all the darkness that they cause
You’re not alone
We know you’re tired of carrying
Your shadows to the light. Over again
Despite it all, all the darkness that they cause
You’re not alone
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Figure in the Dark
04:45
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Lift me from the ground
Bring me to the sound
Of laughter in the dark
The shadow of my heart
Take me I want something else
Dive into pages on the shelf
To reach the final arc
I’m punching in the dark
Come to me, my lover to be
Ok, I’ll play. But I don’t remember your name
Like this, no way
Don’t surrender, I see those faded eyes
Hard to hear the voices, they whisper in the silence
Beyond
Bring me to the ground
Take me to be found
To wander in the dark
The beacon of my heart.
Stay with me, my lover to be
I'll play your game. So I’ve gone and called out your name
And found the way.
Don’t surrender I see those faded eyes
Try to hear the voices, they’ll lead you through the silence
Beyond
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Sl_ck_rs
03:02
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I hear the water swimming in my head
I fear the monster underneath my bed
They say in 20 years the city is the sea, well how ‘bout that?
A floating map
It’s apathetic, call it what it is
I can’t remember the last time we looked beyond this country
Erasing all the comfort in our minds
Sign of the times
And if we can’t fix the leak
Well then we might have made this our last century
And thrown away the chance to be
Better together
When time has overrun
We’ll spin into the sun
Surrendering, surrender
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(night)
00:38
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A Casa
04:01
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How could I detect what happens in your head when I can't see?
If we could just take a backwards step to examine the life we led before coming clean.
I'm not claiming to have always done right by you, I'm still blossoming 'cause aren't we all?
But what is said is done, and the words remain unsung to never be heard.
Walk away instead with the last thing that you said:
"I won't be your friend, I won’t be your friend."
But in the dead of night, with the darkness on my side
I can see the light, I can see it shine.
How could you deflect the struggles that I've said I've been dealing with?
If you could just get it in your mind that life is not black or white but a world of gray.
But don't get me wrong I know that I often come off strong
This I'm working on, 'cause aren't we always?
Now what’s done is done and the words rest on my tongue to never be heard.
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Sunchaser
04:15
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Lost at sea, in stormy weather
Hard to see, the window’s gathered too much water
Try to breathe, there’s no harm in waiting patiently
See you when the sun in shining
Lonely years, the one thing we can all agree on
Caught between the corridors
Keeping note of everything the walls were saying
Slow goodbyes. I’ll see you when the sun is shining
At your feet burning sand.
Contemplating leaving.
Lost at sea, in stormy weather
Hard to see, the window’s gathered too much water
Try to breathe, there’s no harm in waiting patiently
See you when the sun in shining
Then maybe it would be worth finding
Somewhat of a silver lining
See you when the sun is shining
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about
The thing that humanity clings to is hope. In the darkness, light will prevail. In uncertain times, prosperity will ultimately endure: without it, there is simply nothing. On ‘Blue Garden’, Delta Sleep’s 4th studio album, out 11th October on Sofa Boy Records & Wax Bodega (US), the band find themselves digging beneath the overwhelming darkness of the world to find just a glimmer of light — tying in similar themes across their expansive back catalogue to become what is perhaps their heaviest record to date.
‘Blue Garden’ was recorded at the tail end of 2023 at Daft Studios in Belgium with Mark Roberts (Black Peaks, Toska, The Physics House Band) after a year of huge tours across America, Asia and Australia. Where previous albums came together quickly, with all four members entering the studio armed with songs demoed, tracked and recorded live, this time the band started with a completely blank page.
They opted to approach new material collectively within the space of two and a half weeks, jumping at the opportunity to play with new instrumentation at their fingertips to introduce electronic samples and synths. Given the time to really hyper focus on the production resulted in the scope to draw inspiration from the realm of fantasy and the real world that has permeated its way into the band's sound both sonically and visually.
But it’s ‘Blue Garden’s’ lyrical themes which truly razes it into darkness. Underscored by the horrors unfolding in Palestine, it serves as a form of catharsis to a pure sense of helplessness. “So slowly, I can focus on my needs, to feel good in my body / Because in the end it’s all we got / As we watch the world burn, can’t you see that we’re burning” sings Devin Yüceil on ‘Slow Burn’, posing the question of how you come to terms about dealing with traumatic moments outside of your own personal sphere that you feel powerless and despair.
“It feels like there’s a grey cloud over everything that’s always in the back of your mind. There’s this thing happening that’s not right and it’s clouding any sense of joy or happiness and yet we still have to carry on with our normal lives,” says Yüceil . “It’s about not knowing what to do and not knowing how to talk about it.”
Throughout, Delta Sleep weave their way through moments of dark and light, interlaced with a sweeping ambience and complex tempos that are inspired by punk, indie and electronic influences yet reminiscent of the math-rock home they belong to. In true Delta Sleep fashion it’s structures and textures are moulded to their sound — on ‘Figure In The Dark’ it’s the crashing drums juxtaposed with warm harmonies that make it an emotionally purging listen, while the R&B infused rhythms in ‘The Distance’ helps to push this record past the boundaries of anything they have done before. On ‘Sunchaser’ the mood is brought to a heightened crescendo as gorgeous guitar melodies garner a sense of melancholic longing before making way for a chorus that dazzles to life like a beacon of hope.
Paired with the stunning album artwork by Daniele Castellano, who used ideas of shadow in 80s fantasy films and art like The Neverending Story and Peter Pan as a catalyst to capture how world events are casting a shadow of depression, terror and helplessness over us all; and the companion video to album opener ‘Dawn’, which is a beautiful video highlighting the plight of the Palestinian people while showcasing their history and humanity, puts ‘Blue Garden’ into real life perspective.
‘Blue Garden’ was recorded at the tail end of 2023 at Daft Studios in Belgium with Mark Roberts (Black Peaks, Toska, The Physics House Band) after a year of huge tours across America, Asia and Australia. Where previous albums came together quickly, with all four members entering the studio armed with songs demoed, tracked and recorded live, this time the band started with a completely blank page.
They opted to approach new material collectively within the space of two and a half weeks, jumping at the opportunity to play with new instrumentation at their fingertips to introduce electronic samples and synths. Given the time to really hyper focus on the production resulted in the scope to draw inspiration from the realm of fantasy and the real world that has permeated its way into the band's sound both sonically and visually.
But it’s ‘Blue Garden’s’ lyrical themes which truly razes it into darkness. Underscored by the horrors unfolding in Palestine, it serves as a form of catharsis to a pure sense of helplessness. “So slowly, I can focus on my needs, to feel good in my body / Because in the end it’s all we got / As we watch the world burn, can’t you see that we’re burning” sings Devin Yüceil on ‘Slow Burn’, posing the question of how you come to terms about dealing with traumatic moments outside of your own personal sphere that you feel powerless and despair.
“It feels like there’s a grey cloud over everything that’s always in the back of your mind. There’s this thing happening that’s not right and it’s clouding any sense of joy or happiness and yet we still have to carry on with our normal lives,” says Yüceil . “It’s about not knowing what to do and not knowing how to talk about it.”
Throughout, Delta Sleep weave their way through moments of dark and light, interlaced with a sweeping ambience and complex tempos that are inspired by punk, indie and electronic influences yet reminiscent of the math-rock home they belong to. In true Delta Sleep fashion it’s structures and textures are moulded to their sound — on ‘Figure In The Dark’ it’s the crashing drums juxtaposed with warm harmonies that make it an emotionally purging listen, while the R&B infused rhythms in ‘The Distance’ helps to push this record past the boundaries of anything they have done before. On ‘Sunchaser’ the mood is brought to a heightened crescendo as gorgeous guitar melodies garner a sense of melancholic longing before making way for a chorus that dazzles to life like a beacon of hope.
Paired with the stunning album artwork by Daniele Castellano, who used ideas of shadow in 80s fantasy films and art like The Neverending Story and Peter Pan as a catalyst to capture how world events are casting a shadow of depression, terror and helplessness over us all; and the companion video to album opener ‘Dawn’, which is a beautiful video highlighting the plight of the Palestinian people while showcasing their history and humanity, puts ‘Blue Garden’ into real life perspective.
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released October 11, 2024
Written and performed by Delta Sleep
Lyrics written by Devin Yüceil
Recorded & Produced by Mark Roberts at DAFT Studios (BE) & Middle Farm (UK)
Mastered by Tim Rowkins at Hell Yeah Mastering
All artwork by Daniele Castellano
© & ℗ Delta Sleep 2024
Under exclusive license to Sofa Boy Records & Wax Bodega
Written and performed by Delta Sleep
Lyrics written by Devin Yüceil
Recorded & Produced by Mark Roberts at DAFT Studios (BE) & Middle Farm (UK)
Mastered by Tim Rowkins at Hell Yeah Mastering
All artwork by Daniele Castellano
© & ℗ Delta Sleep 2024
Under exclusive license to Sofa Boy Records & Wax Bodega
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