Forever Giving Handshakes + Demos

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RANCIDMEATATTACK up there with, if not the best Oz release of the year. the perfect blend of fuzz and noise and infectious garage sounds from the halcyon days of the dolewave movement Favorite track: Poor-to-Middling Moneymaking.

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Delivery - FGH Full Album + Demo's Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Anti Fade cassette edition features Forever Giving Handshakes full album on side A. Side B features the complete album's worth of demo's, as well as demo versions of the Personal Effects 7" that came out last year plus two completely unreleased tracks. LP versions available via Spoilsport Records (AU) and Feel It Records (US).

Artwork by James Devlin, with cover art uniquely coloured in by band members. Hand numbered edition of 100 cassettes, pro-dubbed cassette manufactured by Dex Audio in Melbourne.

Includes unlimited streaming of Forever Giving Handshakes + Demos via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Picture This 03:57	buy track
2.	Poor-to-Middling Moneymaking 03:02	buy track
3.	Baader Meinhof 03:43 video	buy track
4.	Office Party 03:18	buy track
5.	No Homes 02:25	buy track
6.	The Complex 04:00	buy track
7.	Lifetimer 03:36	buy track
8.	Wear It Well 03:20	buy track
9.	No Balconies 03:12	buy track
10.	Born Second 04:04	buy track
11.	Good 01:41	buy track
12.	Best Western 04:17	buy track
13.	Personal Effects (Demo) 03:59	buy track
14.	The Topic (Demo) 02:06	buy track
15.	Digging the Hole 03:34	buy track
16.	Widescreening 02:18	buy track
17.	Picture This (Demo) 04:06	buy track
18.	Poor-to-Middling Moneymaking (Demo) 03:18	buy track
19.	Wear It Well (Demo) 03:25	buy track
20.	Good (Demo) 01:31	buy track
21.	The Complex (Demo) 03:54	buy track
22.	Office Party (Demo) 03:10	buy track
23.	Baader Meinhof (Demo) 03:41	buy track
24.	Born Second (Demo) 04:19	buy track
25.	No Homes (Demo) 02:38	buy track
26.	No Balconies (Demo) 03:11	buy track
27.	Lifetimer (Demo) 03:43	buy track
28.	Best Western (Demo) 04:44	buy track

about

Both broadening and defying the sounds of their first two 7” releases, Delivery continue their claim for the title of hardest and fastest working band in town on their debut full length, ‘Forever Giving Handshakes’.

Collecting songs written over the Melbourne five-piece’s two year lifespan and following on from the band’s bedroom project origins of ‘Yes We Do’ and the expanded one-two punch of ‘Personal Effects/The Topic’, ‘Forever Giving Handshakes’ captures Delivery at full force for the first time, leaning into the now fully-enhanced live sound they’ve been quite actively working towards since their first show in March 2021. Here the band collate a 12-track garage-punk opus, their five distinct voices simultaneously pulling songs in different directions while an undeniable chemistry reveals a combined hive mind ascending on a clear group mission… to rock.

Recorded majoritively live in their Brunswick rehearsal space, ‘Forever Giving Handshakes’ plays the perfect example of a band hitting their stride, expanding to four lead vocalists while demonstrating perfect interplay between three guitars and a rhythm section at its most propulsive. Still spearheaded by James Lynch and Rebecca Allan, the band’s engine room now fully incorporates Lisa Rashleigh, Sam Harding and Daniel Devlin, to create a listen that blurs punk freneticism with pop eccentricities.

Album opener ‘Picture This’ is nervy and tense, ‘Office Party’ is wiry and offbeat and ‘No Homes’ comes packed with scrappy charm, or there are surges of undeniable pop force with late album charger ‘Good’ or the one-chord, slacker rock anthem ‘Lifetimer’ (which may well have the most singable chorus of the year). But the album’s most triumphant moment is lead single ‘Baader Meinhof’, a synth-punk blitz that finds the band working in masterful tandem, as the entire group’s distinct influences and performance styles shine together to become entirely unstoppable. If you didn’t have the Delivery phenomenon yet, you’re about to.

Marking the beginning of a victory lap for Delivery, the album rounds out a sprint of unrelenting live shows, impressive support slots and two stellar 7”s, all within a tidy 18 months. ‘Forever Giving Handshakes’ is a statement from Delivery, not only have they been one of the fastest working bands of the last two years, they’ve also made one of the strongest local debut albums of the past decade.

Delivery’s debut album ‘Forever Giving Handshakes’ will be out on cassette (+ Demo’s) via Anti Fade Records (AU) and on LP via Spoilsport (AU) and Feel It Records (US) from November 11th.

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released November 11, 2022

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Delivery Melbourne, Australia

Email us: yeswedodelivery@gmail.com

shows

Jul 25

Henham Park

Southwold, UK
Jul 26

Binic Festival

Binic, France
Jul 26

Binic Festival

Binic, France

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