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The Delgados

Mantra

By Andrew Jovanowski

For the Daily

While their 1997 debut, Domestiques, found the Delgados sounding like the Pixies, each album since has been a gradual shift away from soft-loud/stop-start indie rock to this intelligent pop masterpiece. Hate fully realizes the Delgados' potential adumbrated in 2000's Mercury Music Prize-nominated The Great Eastern. The band sounds less like the Pixies and more like the lovechild of post-rockers Mogwai and Sigur R