DimitriPolozov 
After completing their UK tour and going down a storm across the pond at CMJ, The Lines are back, and are releasing a new single, ‘Glorious Aftermath’ from their self titled debut album.
With a hectic live schedule ahead, including the HMV Next Big Thing festival and supporting britpop legends Ocean Colour Scene on their Moseley Shoals tour, the band are set to head out to North America for Canadian Music Week, SXSW and some additional New York dates, before their own headline UK tour in May. Wolverhampton’s finest are set for a busy 2011.
Rock is dead…? Brit rock has received a few thousand volts, a shot of adrenaline, and is coming back better than ever, alongside this realisation, the rest of the UK is starting to notice what the city of Wolverhampton has known for a while, the brightest young stars riding this wave are the Lines. The band comes with the Robert Plan seal of approval as the Led Zeppelin legend states “There are not many good bands coming out of Wolverhampton, just one great band called the Lines”.
Glorious Aftermath is another anthemic offering from the west midlands 4 piece, combining intricate melodies with velcro hooks, soaring riffs and infectious style, alongside their epic live shows, they are fast becoming known for.
On returning from the US, the Lines are embarking on a May headline tour of prestigious venues up and down the country. As the word is spreading outside the core “Lines army” fanbase the dates are selling fast.
Upcoming live Dates:
Feb 13 HMV Next Big Thing Festival Camden Barfly
Feb 25 Ocean Colour Scene Moseley Shoals Barrowlands – Glasgow
Feb 26 Ocean Colour Scene Moseley Shoals O2 Academy – Birmingham
March 8 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 9 -12 Canadian Music Week Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 16-19 SXSW Music Festival Austin, Texas, USA
March 22 Pianos, Lower East Side New York, New York, USA.
May 4 King Tuts Wah Wah Hut Glasgow
May 5 Sugarmill Stoke
May 6 HMV Institute – Library Birmingham
May 7 Sumo Leicester
May 17 Hoxton Bar and Kitchen London
Electro-dance quartet Delphic reside out of Manchester and have unleashed upon us a carefully-merged stream of refulgent glow-in-the-dark emulsion, displayed through this, their debut album ‘Acolyte’ at the dawn of a new year. Their big-beat dance hall electronica enthusiastically meshes here with its meandering indie sound. There is enough chemistry between them to produce an offshoot of considerable charm and thumping power. ‘This Momentary’, for instance, could act as a catalyst for a moist embrace of a fellow raver. ‘Doubt’, ‘Acolyte’ and ‘Counterpoint’ are also beautifully structured, warm and all-inclusive with power to unite the masses in the rapture of a collective rhythmical contraction. Cook’s tender, soulful vocals seem to animate this sophisticated techno beat and baseline machine. Modulating synth pads aerosol translucent colours in all directions, and occasional guitar riffs come as a nostalgic sentiment about the times long gone. As a whole, the record is consistent in both the sound this band is forming throughout, and the effect it has on our sensory receptors. It leaves a patch of light on the retina and a reverberating echo in the auricle. Both aren’t at all unpleasant.
