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Television (feat. Genevieve Dawson) [Single Version]

by Delmer Darion

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The West Midlands-born and London-based electronic duo ​Delmer Darion​ (Oliver Jack and Tom Lenton) release the final single ​‘Television’​ from their forthcoming debut album ‘Morning Pageants’, which is coming out on​ 16​ October ​via ​Practise Music​.

On ​‘Television’,​ Delmer Darion continue their explorations of the death of the devil, this time presenting him trapped within a Saturday morning cartoon in a suburban living room:

“Back in the 80s, some Fundamentalist Christians like Pastor Gary Greenwald were preaching how cartoons like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe were turning children to Satan and the occult. That gave us this wonderful image of Satan curled up and imprisoned in the electron guns of old cathode ray tubes. We just thought, how far he’s fallen! Back in his day, pretty much everyone feared Satan’s ability to walk, talk, convey, possess, and just generally affect the physical world. But here, a small minority of loonies have him spinning morning cartoons for kids. It felt like the perfect symbol for the death of Satan in the collective consciousness.”

Musically, it’s a beautiful break from the duo’s industrial-heavy electronics. Jittering drums build in series of improvised fills, sampled and sequenced, getting bigger but less steady as the song plays out. A circling piano coda gently coils itself around alt-folk songwriter Genevieve Dawson’s guest vocals, and the repeated line from Wallace Stevens’s poem ‘The Auroras of Autumn’: “this is where the serpent lives”.

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released September 2, 2020
Vocals: Genevieve Dawson, Louise Essex
Synth/Modular: Oliver Jack
Piano: Tom Lenton
Guitar: Tom Lenton
Drums: Tom Lenton

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Delmer Darion UK

Delmer Darion are an experimental electronic producer duo based in London. Their new album, Tall Vision-of-the-Voyage is due 15th September on Practise Music.

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