Over the last few years, the Brooklyn-based duo Deli Girls -- made up of Danny Orlowski and Tommi Kelly -- have put out a series of aggressive and antagonistic electronic releases, including last year's full-length I Don't Know How To Be Happy and their especially great self-titled EP from 2016. This past week, they released a new album called BOSS, which was prefaced by "no such thing as good and evil" a few months back.
It's twitchy and anxious, mumbly and a little more considered than what they've put out in the past. They pull from industrial hardcore and nu-metal -- there's a cover of Korn's "Faget" and a song that sounds like Evanescence -- and they create abrasive sounds that bristle at political grandstanding and misinformation, anger and frustration swallowed up and spit back out in a growl.
"The word abuse can't be used/ Don't mean nothing/ No more/ This is all about control," goes the refrain on "it's all in my head." "We all live in a small box/ Inside a little bit bigger box," Orlowski says on the dancey and propulsive "feedback/failure." "We all live in troubled times/ Inside much more troubled times."
Check it out below.
BOSS is out now.
