Deluka’s Debut Album Coming This October!

Album Available Digitally on Sept 21, Physically Oct. 12

NEW Song, “Nevada”, Premiered on PopMatters Today, Available For Download Here!

Brooklyn-based, Birmingham-bred band Deluka will release their highly anticipated debut full-length album this October on Vel Records. The band has been holed up in the studio writing one of the year’s most exciting debuts. Their breakthrough self-titled EP and thrilling live shows were simply the warning shots! Deluka are on a mission to remind you of everything that is exciting and sexy about rock ‘n’ roll.

Recorded at Vel Records’ studio in Brooklyn, the new album builds on the sound of the EP that NME called “Girl-charged electro-skuzz punk, akin to Ladytron snacking on The Killers for brunch.” Two of the EP’s standout tracks are present on this album: opener “OMFG” and the band’s hit debut single, “Cascade”, the video for which won MTVu’s “The Freshman” by a landslide, and debuted on MTV’s “Subterranean” last month.

The new material shows the growth Deluka has experienced during their time in Brooklyn. The lush production and the undeniable chorus of “Come Back To Me” prove that this band can write a great pop song. Gritty songs like “Trespasser” and “Waves” show the band’s mastery of layering of lead singer and guitarist Ellie Innocenti’s rock guitar riffs over the electronic beats of electronics expert Kris Kovacs. Drummer Stevie Palmer provides the flawless rhythm that has become a trademark of the band’s sound.

Deluka are also no strangers to the dancefloor. “Mean Streak” has the energy and the attitude to whip any crowd into a frenzy. The album closer, which has also become a hallmark closer for their electrifying live shows, is the epic “Capital City”, an anthemic track that could very well become indie rock’s answer to “Empire State of Mind.”

Ellie Innocenti’s commanding delivery on this album will leave no doubt of that in your mind that Deluka are one of the most exciting bands of the year. In “Come Back To Me,” she tells you to “come back, come back to me now.” You will…again and again.

Watch Deluka perform “Cascade” live on MTV Iggy Here.

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From Birmingham to Brooklyn

Deluka are an English electronic, indie band, whose sound has been likened to nearly every genre from Punk to Disco, Electro to indie and New Wave to No Wave. Deluka's fresh new sound is the eclectic evolution of Birmingham’s storied pedigree, a perfect storm of fluid electronic beats and hailing rock riffs, pulsating bass and breathtaking vocals.

Following early praise from UK indie music bible the NME and trendsetting culture mag Dazed and Confused, Deluka inked a deal with Brooklyn indie label VEL Records releasing a 5 song EP in the summer of 2009. Since then “Sleep is Impossible” was tapped for Rockstar Games wildly popular Grand Theft Auto IV, AOL Spinner has launched an exclusive of The Rapture’s Remix of “Cascade”, and 3 songs have landed MTV placements (the hit show The City, and the VMA’s). That along with Clearchannel NEW! feature and 120 stations adding the record at college, has gotten Deluka a quick start to the US market.

For some artists, successes are delivered by silver spoons, but Deluka's story is one of modest pride and hard determination amidst a melting pot of diversity. It began when Ellie Innocenti, a vocalist and songwriter whose regular performances at Birmingham’s Jug of Ale caught the eye of the electronics expert and producer Kris Kovacs. Together they forged a creative alliance that landed them in Innocenti’s bedroom studio. “It all happened organically, really” explains Innocenti. While testing different mixtures of electronic sounds and percussive lyrics, they created their own unique brand of danceable rock songs. The duo combined forces with musicians Robbie G. (bass) and Stevie Palmer (drums) under the name Deluka, coined after a dysfunctional character from the motion picture Pretty Woman.

Experimentation and practical necessity guided Deluka's early days. On a tight budget, the group often explored the Midland countryside looking for cheap deals on rather unconventional instruments. “We would troll car boot sales looking for children’s toy keyboards,” says Kovacs, “and we had a very strong set of rules. The keyboard couldn’t be too modern and it couldn’t cost more than four pounds.” From these small gems the group drew their inspiration and tirelessly experimented. Choosing to sample and sequence the instruments they found, to create the backbone of their songs, fleshing out the rest with ‘cheese-wire’ slap backed guitars, driving bass and disco hi-hats. Creating a sound that is retro in its origin, yet forward thinking in its execution. Kovacs would arrange electronic beeps and programmed drums while Innocenti gave the songs melody and structure pulling lyrics taken from thoughts and emotions that she would ‘collect’ in her notebook. . The outcome is buoyant, edgy songs outfitted with memory branding melodies. As Kovacs maintains, “We’re always keeping a pop sensibility about things.”

Once Deluka brought their studio songs to audiences across the Midlands, the live results were striking. Their impeccably produced electronic tracks ignited crowds. Innocenti describes the transition of their music from studio to live performance as a series of contradictions. “We write songs that are constructed in a studio, but then we take it out live and its raw and energetic (it’s kind of punk).”

Deluka released an EP in the summer on 2009 on Brooklyn Indie Label VEL Records, and their first full length studio record is slated for release in early 2010. From studio to the stage – from Birmingham to Brooklyn, 2010 is the year Deluka just may well become your favorite band.