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

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