Delivery

Confined to quarters during the longest lockdown in the world, a couple - who happen to be musicians - have all the time in the world and nowhere to go. Both Bec and James have been part of Melbourne’s music scene for years, with Bec involved in the punk community while James played in a string of garage/pop acts. Although they’ve been a couple for a while, they’ve never actually made music together. As it turns out, the city’s cautious approach to a global pandemic was the catalyst for Delivery - one of the most brilliant  and forceful rock’n’roll bands to emerge from the southern hemisphere in years.  

Initially inspired by local heroes Eddy Current Suppression Ring (Bec: “they’re the masters of no frills, honest rock’n’roll”) and bands like Seattle’s The Intelligence and The Yummy Fur from Glasgow, James and Bec began to hone a sound that nodded to their separate musical upbringings. Over the next few months, they filled the spare rooms in their house with musicians. Each bedroom, a different player. As the months passed, songs were written and a sound was honed. As could be expected given the circumstances, Delivery’s music was razor sharp, tight as hell and properly heavy, sounding like it was trying to punch its way out of the speakers. 

Delivery’s second album, Force Majeure - rarely does a title so aptly describe the contents - opens with the controlled explosion of recent single Diggin’ The Hole. The track is three and a half minutes of precise forward motion that's heavy enough to do serious damage, brilliantly breaking down into a percussive middle eight before one final burst of fireworks that feels powerful enough that it could propel the listener through a brick wall. 

Force Majure is Delivery’s first album for Heavenly Recordings, a label with a long history of championing young Australian bands, from The Vines to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Confidence Man. Force Majure is an urgent, joyous noise - a twelve track battering ram of an album that builds hugely on the promise of their debut and acts as a calling card from your new favourite honest rock’n’roll band.