Delv!s releases new EP« WALK ALONE TRACKS » today

In prelude to his first album ‘Bla Bla Blue’, to be released early 2022, Delv!s, the young Belgian singer-songwriter with a unique soul voice, unveils his new EP ‘Walk Alone Tracks’.

We’ve known it for a while, Belgium is home to great music. Only today, it’s particularly the Flemish side you have to keep an eye on to discover cross-genre and devoted projects, with notably an innovating rap scene and a growing electronic scene of artists ready to trace the steps of pioneers like 2ManyDj’s. In the Soul genre, Delv!s is one of the revelations of the moment. A surname hinting at his rock origins before using it at as a stage name, 34-year-old Niels Delvaux owes just as much to his demeanor as to his brown mop of hair and obvious love of music.

As an artist who is rather discrete, it isn’t simple when you hover at two meters tall, and it becomes rigorously impossible that only a few hear your voice when walking in the footsteps of the giants of soul and its divas. In order to hold on to a shed of light, Delv!s hired the services of a puppet, a figurine which resembles him and plays his role in the “Rebelman” clip, the first extract of his upcoming album, revealed last July.

The pop-psych hymn placed the groundworks which we find today on the EP “Walk Alone Tracks”. Accompanied side by side with different video’s, the adventures of the muppet, but also musically apprehending another one of the many facets of Delv!s.

Bittersweet, throbbing and swaying, the “Walk Alone Track”, which recounts what we can feel when adventuring without goal and on our own, whilst evoking irresistibly the most beautiful torments of the soul with its brass and old heart. But it reveals in time the multitude of ingredients that contains Delv!s’ music and his solid group accompanying him, filled with electric organ and amplified guitars painting the picture of the countryside. Even if he’s given us the ideal urban walk along track, it also reminds us nevertheless the harshness of the city and the feeling of solitude which dominates it.

However, here, hope is never far. Proved by the last track of the EP, “Round and Round”, a message to future generations, started by the sound of children’s games and interpreted in a soft comforting tonality. Everything that is needed to accept the evidence. Just as nostalgic as modern, the music and vocals from Delv!s, conscious and different, coming from les plat pays or out of the blue, do us good.

DELV!S WALK ALONE TRACKS

1. Walk Alone Track

2. Rebelman

3. Round and Round

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