Biography
Delivery crafts a lean, aggressive style that draws equally from punk's raw emotional bite and garage rock's confident strut, slotting them among Australia's string of standout rock outfits such as Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Twerps. These groups routinely fuse noise with melody, sharp riffs with communal choruses, yet avoid undue heaviness. The band's earliest sessions took shape under COVID-19 lockdown constraints, yet once live performances became possible the trio-dimensional energy translated into two albums: the punk-charged Forever Giving Handshakes in 2022 and the broader Force Majeure in 2024, which moved from thunderous hard rock to reflective ballads.
Rebecca Allen on bass and vocals joined James Lynch on guitar and vocals to form Delivery in Melbourne in 2020 amid the pandemic; both had prior experience in the local indie scene, with Allen's tenures in Gutter Girls and Blonde Revolver and Lynch's in the Vacant Smiles and Kosmetika. They enlisted Seamus Whelan, another Vacant Smiles guitarist, alongside drummer Daniel Devlin from Heir Traffic and House Deposit plus Lisa Rashleigh of Soursob on guitar and vocals. Live appearances remained impossible under restrictions, so the members focused on home recording. Eschewing straightforward punk and garage replication, they adopted angular arrangements that favored restraint and drum machines, yielding an anxious new-wave tone. Those sessions produced the June 2021 single Yes We Do. The follow-up, the April 2022 double-sided "Personal Effects"/"The Topic," leaned further into new wave with detached female vocals, piercing sax bursts, and serrated guitars.
By the time they tracked their debut album Forever Giving Handshakes, guitarist and synth player Sam Harding had joined; the band deliberately aimed to bottle the spark of their emerging live shows, discarding drum machines and pushing levels into distortion. Anti Fade Records, Spoilsport, and Feel It Records issued the LP in November 2022. Its impact and the group's dynamic performances drew interest from the U.K.'s Heavenly Records, which signed them for the next release.
Force Majeure was cut with the same personnel yet adopted a measured, less frenetic approach that favored calculated impact over relentless assault. Eddy Current Suppression Ring's influence remained audible, and that band's Mikey Young handled mastering. Heavenly Records released the album in January 2024, by which point the lineup had shifted dramatically: Devlin departed for the Belair Lip Bombs while Harding and Rashleigh stepped away from indie rock altogether. Liam Kenny, formerly of Bitch Prefect and Peak Twins, took over drums; guitar duties fell to Scarlett Maloney of Steel Wheels and Jordan Oakley of Pinch Points and Checkpoint. Delivery embarked on a world tour shortly after the album's appearance.
Rebecca Allen on bass and vocals joined James Lynch on guitar and vocals to form Delivery in Melbourne in 2020 amid the pandemic; both had prior experience in the local indie scene, with Allen's tenures in Gutter Girls and Blonde Revolver and Lynch's in the Vacant Smiles and Kosmetika. They enlisted Seamus Whelan, another Vacant Smiles guitarist, alongside drummer Daniel Devlin from Heir Traffic and House Deposit plus Lisa Rashleigh of Soursob on guitar and vocals. Live appearances remained impossible under restrictions, so the members focused on home recording. Eschewing straightforward punk and garage replication, they adopted angular arrangements that favored restraint and drum machines, yielding an anxious new-wave tone. Those sessions produced the June 2021 single Yes We Do. The follow-up, the April 2022 double-sided "Personal Effects"/"The Topic," leaned further into new wave with detached female vocals, piercing sax bursts, and serrated guitars.
By the time they tracked their debut album Forever Giving Handshakes, guitarist and synth player Sam Harding had joined; the band deliberately aimed to bottle the spark of their emerging live shows, discarding drum machines and pushing levels into distortion. Anti Fade Records, Spoilsport, and Feel It Records issued the LP in November 2022. Its impact and the group's dynamic performances drew interest from the U.K.'s Heavenly Records, which signed them for the next release.
Force Majeure was cut with the same personnel yet adopted a measured, less frenetic approach that favored calculated impact over relentless assault. Eddy Current Suppression Ring's influence remained audible, and that band's Mikey Young handled mastering. Heavenly Records released the album in January 2024, by which point the lineup had shifted dramatically: Devlin departed for the Belair Lip Bombs while Harding and Rashleigh stepped away from indie rock altogether. Liam Kenny, formerly of Bitch Prefect and Peak Twins, took over drums; guitar duties fell to Scarlett Maloney of Steel Wheels and Jordan Oakley of Pinch Points and Checkpoint. Delivery embarked on a world tour shortly after the album's appearance.
Albums
Force Majeure
2025
Forever Giving Handshakes
2022
Technology Transplant
2017
Breathless - Single
2015
Kärlekens Vingar
2013
Fool's Meeting
1968
Singles
