Delmer Darion - Morning Pageants Remixes (2021)

West Midlands-born and London-based experimental electronic duo Delmer Darion (comprising Tom Lenton and Oliver Jack) released their debut album Morning Pageants last October to critical acclaim via Practise Music. A sleeper sensation, it was five years in the making: a sprawling, industrial ten-track account of the death of the devil as a tragedy for the imagination. De-centered rhythmic assemblies of analogue drum machines played through a series of guitar pedals, thunderous bass swelled from a self-oscillating filter feedback patch, and folk songs dissolved into thin air.

One year on from its release, Delmer Darion reemerge into the new music wilderness having spent the downtime enlisting the help of some of their favourite artists to reimagine the record. Taking from the album’s divergences in light and dark, chaos and harmony, dance and dissipation, melody and noise, the reworks from Joseph Shabason, Rachika Nayar, Squid’s Anton Pearson, Lucy Gooch and more walk the same treacherous descent into Delmer Darion’s archives, and surface with a collection of songs as spellbinding as the originals. Once again, nothing sounds quite like them.

“Morning Pageants feels for all the world like one of those rare, underground paradigm shifts.” – Electronic Sound
“Delmer Darion’s extraordinary debut album was one of 2020’s most slept-on full length projects.” – Clash
“Unsettling yet absolutely hypnotic… a complex tale of mortality and decay.” – The Line of Best Fit
“Delmer Darion might have made one of the underground debuts of the year.” – Loud and Quiet