Review: "Low Lights, Long Nights" Album by Delvaux
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Shooters Hill, South East London based rapper Delvaux incorporates a wide slew of styles and sounds with his impeccably executed “Low Lights, Long Nights”. Everything from rave to trap to EDM all within a hip-hop template comes through into a singular stream of sound.
The whole album feels coated in a dark aura as these are tracks for the twilight for the night. Delvaux’s lyricism suggests as much for his has a particularly careful take on word choice. Flows are like fire and he delivers them with so much passion. Multifaceted and multilayered, Delvaux transforms the buildup into an art form, with every single element given plenty of room to shine.
Great space and geography emerge on the powerful opener of “She Knows”. Everything within the track features a unique sort of honestly for Delvaux delivers each line with so much intense honesty. Sounds go for an elastic tact on the disorienting flavor of “Coming Down”, featuring S1MMS, as it burns through the track length with a stately, physical groove.
Nimble percussion skitters through the agile “Low”, featuring Mass Idea and J Harden, as the track constantly contorts and reorients itself. Glowing guitar serves as a key focal point on the sly “Chase Me”. Toy box melodies rest front and center on the tender “Love Me”. Eerie atmospherics roll through on the physicality of “Space Coupe”. Neatly summarizing all that came before it is the lively sweeps of “Photograph”.
The “Low Lights, Long Nights” album offers a unique eerie sort of beauty, proving the OvaC collective founder, Delvaux, to be a master of atmosphere.