Delta

There are currently four artists named Delta. One is a band formed by former Sea Urchin James Roberts, the second an Australian hip-hop MC, the third is a progressive metal band from Chile and the fourth is a Latvian dance band.

Regarding the UK Delta: Formed in 1993 from the ashes of cult Sarah Records indie band The Sea Urchins, the core lineup consisting of brothers James and Patrick Roberts on guitar and vocals. A 10" for Che and three singles for Dishy Records followed before the band signed to the Acid Jazz Records subsidiary Focus, which effectively put the band's career on hold for almost five years, with no material being released. They eventually broke free of the contract and returned to Dishy, who put out a tremendously received compilation of B-sides and demos called Laughing Mostly in 1998. The Guardian proclaimed it to be a work of genius, describing it as "the last great album of the millennium." This momentum allowed them to forge ahead and release Slippin' Out in 2000, which was lauded by the NME for its "songs of aching wonder" and named as one of that magazine's Top-50 albums for the year (#22). It's successor Hard Light (2002) was similarly championed, the Sunday Times keenly observing that "in an era when Coldplay's oops-I've-just-grazed-my-knee melancholy dominates, this kind of authentic, feverish hurt on display here is irresistible."

Discography
Sugared Up EP (Che) 1993
Gun EP (Dishy) 1994
All My Life EP (Dishy) 1994
Make It Right EP (Dishy) 1995
I'm Getting Darker EP (Focus) 1996 (promo only)
Laughing Mostly (Dishy) 1999
Slippin' Out (Dishy) 2000
The City's Bigger Than Both of Us EP (Dell'Orso) 2001
Could You EP (Mercury) 2001
Hard Light (Dell'Orso) 2002
Singularity (Elephant Stone) 2004

Delta was also the name of a short lived US experimental new wave band based around a minimal-synth approach. Their know output includes: Diagrams Of Women/Mr. E. Chaos 7" (1980) and Diagrams of Women full-length (early 80s).