DELAGE

Délage is an Amsterdam-based trio creating dark, motorik dream pop. They consist of Till Hormann on vocals and guitar, Carlijn Fransen on keys and vocals, and Marius Schwarz on bass and vocals. Their new album, Another Day (2026), follows and builds upon the dreamy sounds they've been developing across their two previous releases – Loverboy Beatface (2018) and Twist and Doubt (2020) on label Field Mate Records – yet it takes an existential turn in its lyricism and approach. Reflecting on isolation, loneliness, and monotony, with Another Day, Délage use the holes that appear in one's life-fabric as a frame through which to bear witness to timeless themes like love, hierarchies, aging, precarity, and escapism.

Album opener "You" sets the stage for a smoky sojourn through dark city streets and bright melodious peaks. Horman's charming slacker-academic drawl meets the soft, touching vocals of Fransen in a contrasting concoction of timbres whose respective registers mirror the lows and highs of contemporary life. From the bubble-gum pop of "Easily," to the nouveau wave of "Frühling," and the synthy garage-rock tones of "Cheri," Délage provide a cabinet of catchy curiosities in Another Day. Jangling guitar tones, sturdy basslines, and twinkling keys undergird their sound, which is strictly attuned and honed yet ever capable of surprising listeners.

Délage offer a peculiar and infectious spread of contradictions across their songs, which range from painfully sweet to joyfully sombre – using every colour of life's emotive palette to assemble their poignant and compassionate music. Their multilingual and multidimensional songs draw from new wave and post-punk influences to build an expansive sonic world of giddy melodic pleasure with an undercurrent of sympathetic strangeness and alienation. From within the shadowy uncertainty of modern life, Délage shine a beam outwards with their melodies, their words, their songs – each is glinted with a sense of hope and potential and lights the way to somewhere new.

Words: Aidan Wall

Side A

1. You
2. Welle
3. Easily
4. Frühling
5. Das Böse

Side B

6. Another Day
7. Basic Instinct
8. Cheri
9. Money

Recorded at Erik’s House in Amsterdam
Recorded by Erik van der Paardt
Composed and written by Till Hormann in collaboration with Carlijn Fransen and Marius Schwarz
Mixed and produced by Till Hormann
Mastered by Ralv Milberg at Milberg Studios in Stuttgart

Cover artwork: Another day, 2011 © Marijke van Warmerdam
Design label and credits: Bart de Baets
Art direction and production: Marius Schwarz
Pressing and printing: intakt!, Berlin

Délage
Till Hormann Vocals, Guitar, Percussions and additional Synthesizer
Carlijn Fransen Synthesizer and Backing Vocals
Marius Schwarz Bass and Backing Vocals

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