From cancer to consumerism, fear and failure to hope and unity, Martin, Stu G, Stew, Tim and Jon-the-bassist offer their most real and risky album to date. With anthems and wakes, anger and the rawest guts you’ve ever heard, Delirious? have produced their loudest album yet, soaked in stories and personal experience. It all started with trips to slums in India and Cambodia – encounters with life that made poverty personal and forced hard questions to be asked by each member of the band.

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For the band Delirious?: experience and faith have shaped their lives and their music for more than a decade.

So Delirious? took their questions into the studio and emerged with this: a heart full of tracks that rage and praise and applaud and tear down and stumble and sprint.
The band has decided to donate a portion of the royalties from each CD to provide one day’s food, shelter, education or healthcare to Prem Kiran and its partner projects.
Writing in the album’s book, Martin Smith from Delirious? explains: ‘Whilst touring through India we visited a humanitarian project in one of the red light districts in Mumbai. Frankly it was a shock to us to see women enslaved in such circumstances but more so their own children growing up in a completely hopeless environment. The team there were taking these kids off the street at night and housing them, feeding them and giving basic education. It’s hard for a rock band to know how to respond but we knew our hearts had been pulled out and put back a different way.’
But what about the songs? Stu G writes this about the title track.
‘This is more than a song it’s where we’re at as a band and individuals. We don’t profess to have answers to the big questions of living with the poor, the oppressed and the marginalised on our global doorstep but we are wrestling with these questions and our comfortable kingdoms.
What is our kingdom of comfort? It’s when we are comfortable and safe in our isolated environments, our religion, our ‘castles’. When we become indifferent to the struggles of others, when we are fearful of being inclusive and diverse! It’s a new sound for us. I love this song!
Endnote: Drummer Stew Smith leaves the band this month to launch a new creative agency. ‘I have loved every minute of life within Delirious?’, he says but he’s looking forward to a new career and more time with his family.