Delphic: Behind the times already?

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Just wondering if anyone else saw this article about Delphic on the BBC today.

While this isn't any sort of comment on Delphic's music, I found some of the remarks frustrating:

They are not, they say, a bog standard indie band of the sort that was in plentiful supply when they formed in 2007. They are not one of the many electro acts that, they feel, caused dance music to lose its soul. And they are definitely not one of those groups still desperately clinging to the Madchester glory days.

Are we *still* fighting these battles? Do we still have to "prove" that dance music can have soul, and that guitars have something to offer? Really?

I dunno, what do other poptimists think? Am I getting mildly irked over nothing?

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[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

Uhm, genre knowing !fail!, but what does electro even MEAN???

[koganbot]

Are we *still* fighting these battles?

Well, it depends whom you mean by "we," but yes, variations on these battles have been occurring since the 1920s - probably since the 1720s or whenever someone invented "romanticism," though in the 1720s they may not have been discussing electro and Madchester. (I was born in Manchester Hospital, by the way, though it was the one in Connecticut.) These battles have to do on the one hand with dominant social groups thinking that what they pay attention to is more worthy than what others pay attention to, but also, on the other, with people (some within those dominant groups) specifically looking for the Worthy and the Real outside themselves and their group, and so forming new worthiness and realness that then get taken up as The Worthy and The Real etc. and on and on, and since new people keep getting born the cycle continues.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Ummm, I think they're saying there's long been soul in dance music but it's disappeared with the advent of Calvin Harris et al. Which is wrong, but yeah, you're getting mildly irked over nothing.

The album is weird, the band have this awesome flurry of Ewan Pearson trancey-production swirling round them but the band themselves are a bit of a charisma-free void in the middle of it.