Delicate Flowers
Delicate Flowers | |
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 Delicate Flowers at Stoshs, in 2018. | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | New Jersey, U.S. |
| Genres | Indie rock |
| Years active | 2017–current |
| Labels | Sniffling Indie Kids |
| Members | Skylar Adler Frank DeFranco Eric Goldberg Donnie Law |
Delicate Flowers is an American indie rock band from New Jersey.
History[edit]
Delicate Flowers is a four-piece indie rock and folk band from New Jersey, that formed in 2017. It consists of drummer Skylar Adler, bassist Frank DeFranco, guitarist and vocalist Eric Goldberg, and guitarist Donnie Law. Delicate Flowers began as a solo project by Goldberg, writing "songs that were almost more poems than songs."[1] They draw comparison to the music of Conor Oberst, Sufjan Stevens, My Bloody Valentine and Silversun Pickups.[2][3] Their first EP, the four-track Delicate Flowers, was released with Sniffling Indie Kids on 6 October 2015, and it contains a cover of "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam." The lead single "Inherently a Drag" is about "not believing in anything and how that's a bummer but that at the same time, you can't really fool yourself." Speak Into My Good Eye describes the song as a "mature, world-weariness backed by atmospheric, jangly acoustic strums, echoed harmonies and a sense of hope springing up out of the uncertainty."[4] The eight-track album, entitled Happy Accidents, was released on 15 April 2016. Goldberg plays every instrument on the album.[2] Bob Makin in Courier News calls it "strip[ped] down to an indie folk root," adding that the song "Happy Accidents" "mines the kind of intelligent, witty, emotionally raw songwriting that has made Sufjan Stevens and the late Elliott Smith influences on many young artists."[5]
Delicate Flowers performed at the North Jersey Indie Rock Festival on 23 September 2017. They also performed at the Secret Loft's Broken Records: Year One Anniversary! show, with LKFFCT, Shred Flintstone and Bueno, on 17 August 2018.[6] The album Die Progress Unit I was released with Sniffling Indie Kids, on 2 November 2018, and the record release show was held that night at Stosh's in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, with LKFFCT, John Cozz and Toy Cars. The album is the first half of a two-part project that will culminate in the Spring of 2019.[7] The opening track "Vessel" is described as "the finest moments of post-shoegaze and 90s grunge-pop[;] the song is simply impossible to ignore" by Jersey Beat.[8]
Discography[edit]
- Albums
- Happy Accidents (2016)
- Die Progress Unit I (2018)
- Die Progress Unit II (2020)
- EPs
- Delicate Flowers (2015)
Members[edit]
- Skylar Adler – drums
- Frank DeFranco – bass
- Eric Goldberg – guitar and vocals
- Donnie Law – guitar
References[edit]
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Impose Staff (2018), "LKFFCT, Shred Flintstone, Delicate Flowers & Bueno played Secret Loft", Impose, retrieved 20 March 2019
- Makin, Bob (10 April 2016), "Delicate Flowers/"Happy Accidents"|All Sensory Void/"Cashing Transcendence"/Sniffling Indie Kids", Courier News, retrieved 20 March 2019
- Makin, Bob (1 November 2018), "Makin Waves Scene Report with Frankie & the Knockouts, Ellis Wilkinson, Eleanor Tallie, & More", The Aquarian Weekly, retrieved 20 March 2019
- Mehalick, Mike (5 October 2015), "Exclusive Premiere: Delicate Flowers Share Debut Single "Inherently A Drag"", Speak Into My Good Eye, retrieved 20 March 2019
- Pirate! Staff (2016), "Delicate Flowers - Happy Accidents", Pirate!, archived from the original on 21 March 2019, retrieved 20 March 2019
- Pirate! Staff (2018), "Delicate Flowers - Die Progress Unit I", Pirate!, retrieved 20 March 2019[permanent dead link]
- Quinlan, Rich (2018), "Delicate Flowers - Die Progress Unit I", Jersey Beat, archived from the original on 20 March 2019, retrieved 20 March 2019
- Shrum, Tony (2018), "Song Premiere: Delicate Flowers – "Vessel"", New Noise, retrieved 20 March 2019
External links[edit]
Media related to Delicate Flowers at Wikimedia Commons
