Deli Girls

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Deli Girls
Origin Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Years active2013-present
LabelsSweat Equity
MembersDan Orlowski, variety of producers
Past membersRae Kelly
Website https://deligirls.bandcamp.com

Deli Girls is an American band fronted by Dan Orlowski and formed in 2013. [1] [2] Known for extreme live performances [3] with explicit political messaging [4] and "revelatory mosh pits," [5] Deli Girls has been described as "noisy rave punk meets digital hardcore," [1] "mall punk and nu metal," [6] and "genre-agnostic cacophony." [7] Orlowski formed Deli Girls with producer Rae Kelly, who left the band in 2022; Orlowski continued the project with producers and instrumentalists such as Dani Rev, Hatechild, and John Bemis. [1]

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History

Deli Girls' 2019 release I Don't Know How to Be Happy was included in best-of-year lists by Clunk Magazine, [8] Alt Citizen, [9] The Morning News , [10] and Impose Magazine , which also called them "NYC's best DIY act"; [11] the album was featured in the Bandcamp Daily "Beginner’s Guide to Digital Hardcore," [12] VICE "essential albums" of the first half of 2019, [13] and led The Guardian to include Deli Girls in their "50 new artists for 2020." [14] Impose Magazine included Deli Girls' album BOSS in their best albums of 2020, [15] and The Fader highlighted Deli Girls' feature on LEYA's 2022 Eyeline mixtape. [16]

In 2023, Deli Girls released a self-titled LP, a 13-track album featuring collaborators including Swan Meat, Manapool, Murderpact, Akafaë, and Nurse. [17] The album is dedicated to Brytani Caipa, [18] co-founder of "fundraving" collective Melting Point, [19] known for genre-diverse parties, performance protests raising money for migrants rights, [20] and its namesake goal to "melt ICE"; [21] Caipa died in 2021. [22]

Deli Girls' music has been used by activists at protests and online, [1] and widely-circulated documentation includes video of the band performing at a Melting Point migrant rights protest outside of ICE's headquarters in NYC. [23] In May 2024, Orlowski reported that Deli Girls were confronted over pro-Palestine visuals they asked to have projected during a set at Leipzig's TRIP Festival. [24] After being repeatedly questioned and opposed by festival staff members, Orlowski told the audience what had occurred and the band played a noise set in protest. [24]

Discography

Albums

YearTitleLabel
2015DEM0
2016deli girls
2017Evidence [25] Sweat Equity
2019I Don't Know How to Be Happy [5] Sweat Equity
2020BOSS [26]
2023Deli Girls

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Boissonneault, Stephan. "Deli Girls: Experimental rave punk queercore to rock your world". PAN M 360. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "SPOTLIGHT: Danny Orlowski". LVL3. 2 December 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  3. ↑ Joyce, Colin (15 February 2019). "Deli Girls' New Punk-Techno Track Is Shredded and Upsetting". VICE. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  4. ↑ Wilson, Mo (18 November 2020). "The deli girls are pro-queer, pro-freak band of your dreams". Xtra Magazine. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  5. 1 2 Mashurov, NM (13 March 2019). "Deli Girls: I Don't Know How to Be Happy". Pitchfork. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "Deli Girls are fed up, unstoppable, and emo as hell". The FADER.
  7. ↑ "Bandcamp of the Day: Deli Girls". New Noise Magazine. 14 September 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  8. ↑ Turnbull, Laura. "Best Albums of 2019". CLUNK Magazine. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  9. ↑ Fletcher, Julia. "Alt Citizen's favorite releases of 2019". Alt Citizen. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  10. ↑ Womack, Andrew (31 December 2019). "The Top Albums of 2019". The Morning News. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  11. ↑ Cubbison, Jeff. "The 50 Best Albums of 2019". Impose Magazine. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  12. ↑ Shreibak, Shannon Nico (18 November 2021). "A Beginner's Guide to Digital Hardcore". Bandcamp Daily. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  13. ↑ Joyce, Colin (13 June 2019). "33 Essential Albums You Probably Missed So Far in 2019". VICE. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  14. ↑ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben; Snapes, Laura (27 December 2019). "Bradford bassline and ketamine-charged punk – 50 new artists for 2020". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  15. ↑ "The Top 50 Albums of 2020". Impose Magazine. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  16. ↑ Helfand, Raphael (9 March 2022). "10 songs you need in your life this week". The Fader. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  17. ↑ "Deli Girls LP". Record Turnover. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  18. ↑ "Deli Girls". Bandcamp. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  19. ↑ Pasquier, Andrew (15 May 2019). "Melting Point is the NYC rave crew supporting immigrant rights". Mixmag. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  20. ↑ Gordon, Arielle (9 August 2019). "Rave to Resist: The Rise of Activist Raves in New York". PAPER. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  21. ↑ "Resistance, Protest, Joy: Inside Brooklyn's Melting Point Party". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  22. ↑ Reveron, Sean (25 November 2021). "Through The Lens Of Isolation: Andrew Hallinan". Cvlt Nation. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  23. ↑ "Institute of Queer Ecology Top Ten". Artforum. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  24. 1 2 Lawson, Michael (9 May 2024). "Deli Girls' Danny Orlowski accuses Leipzig's TRIP Festival of censoring pro-Palestine visuals". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  25. ↑ "Brooklyn noise provocateurs Deli Girls showed us their camera roll". Interviewmagazine.com. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  26. ↑ Rettig, James (30 August 2020). "Stream Deli Girls' New Album BOSS". Stereogum. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
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