Dels

£13.50

After the ‘Petals have fallen’ album launch at Electrowerkz (taking place on 19th Nov) sold out in 2 days, Soundcrash are happy to announce an extra special new show from Big Dada’s Kieren Gallear aka DELS Live and direct from XOYO, 26 Feb 2015. Save the date.

Dels has developed his own unique take on hip hop – intensely personal and poetic but also funny, scuzzy, raw and sonically adventurous. The new record deploys Dels’ long-term collaborator, Kwes in the role of Executive Producer. Only one of the tracks is produced solely by Kwes, with beats provided by Bonobo, Micachu (fresh from her triumph on the soundtrack for Under the Skin), Blue May, Eli-T and others. Throw in guest performances by some of the most exciting singers in the UK today (Kerry Leatham, Rosie Lowe, Tirzah, Bila and Elan Tamara) and you have a palette which has been extended even further.

More even than any of that is the leap in Dels’ own abilities. Put simply, Gallear has developed the confidence to be exactly and only himself – at times sensitive and romantic, at others sarcastic and funny, even ready to take the piss out of himself.

Gallear has talked about how he uses visuals as well as music to inspire his writing and ‘Petals Have Fallen’ is a record which you almost see as much as hear, one in which moments in time are suspended in images like prehistoric insects in amber. Already hotly-tipped as an MC and carving out a successful career as a designer and video director, Dels brings together all his interests and talents on this, a stand-out album, which delivers and then some, with The Times’ verdict that he is “the future of UK hip hop.”

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