Delicate Awol has been played on NTS shows including Panorama Heaven w/ Bianca Lexis, with Time And Motion Studies Deep Underground first played on 23 May 2018.

Delicate AWOL aren't here to provide life's more cheerful moments. Indeed, the debut album from this London five-piece deals with the kind of miserablist jazz-inflected post-punk image that Hood have turned into a fine art on their last few albums. Delicate AWOL, however, seem to think their main asset is their instrumentals.If truth be told, they have far better trump cards, most notably their vocalist Caroline Ross whose voice makes the dextrous guitar playing sound much more focused.

Even though the guitar playing is inventive enough to stand up in its own right on other tracks, Ross certainly elevates the songs to the next level. This is not a complete work and the group will undoubtedly improve but compared to Hood's earlier singles this is a very promising debut.

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Delicate AWOL were a British experimental rock band active between 1998 and 2005. The band were notable for their cross-pollination of various musical forms (including indie rock, art-rock, post-rock, jazz, Latin and out-rock), for their links with British post-rock band Rothko, for their activities in promoting the London underground music scene of the early 2000s, and for establishing the brief-lived but well-regarded indie record label Day Release. Members of the band later went on to avant-folk duo Tells and the later Rothko line-up.

Sound and influences Between the formation and demise of the band, Delicate AWOL’s sound underwent an extensive transformation. Originally favouring a harsh, guitar-orientated urban indie sound, the band passed through a more ethereal art-rock mid-period and ultimately arrived at a more groove-orientated, jazz-influenced sound incorporating electronica, elements of Brazilian music and electric-period Miles Davis. At various times, the band cited influences including Mogwai, Cocteau Twins, Low, art rock from 1990s Chicago (such as Tortoise and The For Carnation) and Montreal (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and 1970s Britain (King Crimson). Reviewers sometimes compared them to the bands Stereolab, Bardo Pond, Movietone, Pram, Tarwater and Parlour.

Albums * Our Genome (2001, Day Release Records) * Heart Drops from the Great Space (2003, Fire Records)

Singles & EPs * "Random Blinking Lights" (1999, Day Release Records) * "Hurray For Sugar" (2000, Day Release Records) * "In a City of…. (I Saw Your Face First)"/"Busted Pony"/"Feelings Hardly Ever Mean a Thing" (2000, Day Release Records – included in "Autumn" triple CD EP box-set release as part of Four Seasons Singles Club) * "Driesh" (2001, Day Release Records) * "Time & Motion Studies Deep Underground" (Fire Records, 2003)

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