Copping their name from a nebulous TV documentary pertaining to the darkness that's (only sometimes) dormant within us all, young London quartet DELTA CHI are an intelligently moody proposition who sound like they'll be cutting a dash on a wider scale before too long.
Main track "Don't Much Like People" features spiky'n'strident staccato guitars, but there's also a welcome warmth in there which prevents Delta Chi from being rounded up with the current bunch of Futureheads or Bloc Party wannabes cropping up all over the UK map. The harmonies surrounding the chorus are first-rate, as is the band's ability to cut to the chase, while the underlying brittleness is also extremely attractive.
The positive reaction continues unabated through additional tracks "Dead Air" and "Come Down" too. The former is again deep, dark and sumptuous and built around a swooping piano refrain, while the morose, haunted "Come Down" is a memorable thing that hoards the expansive ambition of the likes of The Open before floating away on a cruel sea of heartbreak all its' own.
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"Don't Much Like People", then, may be a title harbouring thoughts of misanthropy, but it also represents the point of entry for a band who sound like they can confidently handle taking on the public in far greater numbers when their time comes. On this evidence, that time may not be so far into the future either.
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