Delicate Steve is the brainchild of New Jersey-based songwriter
Steve Marion. Having previously recorded friends' bands,
Marion realized one day that he had enough gear lying around his home studio to record an album of his own and decided to just go for it. What he developed is a sound that feels like a hybrid of
Animal Collective's dense experimentations and the African-influenced pop of bands like
Dirty Projectors and
Vampire Weekend, playing with layers of percussion and keyboards while tying everything together with breezy, Dobro-style slide guitar.
Marion released his first album of experimental pop,
Wondervisions, in 2011 on
David Byrne's Luaka Bop label. In 2012,
Marion returned with his sophomore full-length
Delicate Steve album,
Positive Force. ~ Gregory Heaney, Rovi
