Electric Feel
Three years ago, Delorentos split following the release of their second album. but now they’ve returned with little sparks - which might JUST be their greatest record yet.
Dave Hanratty, 31 Jan 2012
It’s a beautiful late summer afternoon and Hot Press is kicking back in a Temple Bar studio with Delorentos. Well, three of them anyway. Bassist (or, rather, multi-instrumentalist – more on that later) Níal Conlan is currently MIA on the last day of mixing for third studio album Little Sparks. But he quickly resurfaces, casually slinking his bag from his shoulders before dropping it onto the table with a notable thud. Smiling, he reveals its contents; a miniature beer keg with a fairly unpronounceable European-looking label emblazoned across the front. Eyes light up, grins appear and the sun itself seems to glint in respectful acknowledgement.
It should probably come as no great shock to learn that Little Sparks wasn’t wrapped up on that glorious summer day, nor were the finishing touches applied that month. Instead, and perhaps mindful of the record’s potential, Delorentos adopted a more patient approach, meticulously pawing over every aspect of the songs at their disposal.
Fast forward to early 2012, and the group are finally ready to unveil the album. While their debut, In Love With Detail, was impressively accomplished, sophomore effort You Can Make Sound threatened to become a curious footnote, emerging mere months after the band’s brief split in early 2009. Though a strong album in its own right, it couldn’t entirely eclipse the events that led up to it. With Little Sparks, however, there is a feeling that the band are finally starting to fulfill their enormous early promise.
“Kieran, you said something about six months ago,” begins Conlan, “Oh no, it was you Ro, that we nearly had to destroy the band to build it up again, and it was very clever of you…”
“I think you might have said that,” suggests chief vocalist Rónán Yourell.
“I think you said it.”
“I think Ross might have said it,” Yourell
dryly counters.
“Well whoever said it is a genius,” continues Conlan, on something of a roll now. “We had the band break up, we had personal problems, we had record deals go arseways and then we realised that the whole point of being in a band is that you get to make music with your friends and experience new things like playing on the streets of Madrid and doing Smiths covers in Barcelona. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity not to be sniffed at.”
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