Poem

Delerium began in 1987 by Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber as a creative outlet for ideas that they felt didn't truly mix with the hard industrial sound of their band Frontline Assembly. The sound for the most part has been ambient/ethereal. With great, flowing soundscapes and entire albums that play like film scores.

The last few albums have changed that formula slightly, adding heavenly female vocals for a slightly more pop edge, their last album, karma, included the song silence with vocals by Sarah McLaughlin, which topped international single charts. Poem is the 13th release from delirium.

The sound on this album is exactly as one would expect from the more recent Delerium releases, with the sort of happy electronics and very breezy instrumentals over a backdrop of world influenced rhythms and Gregorian chants. This time with one crucial difference, vocals.

Only 2 songs on Poem are instrumental, where as the rest are songs featuring various song-stresses as Aude, Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer, Mediaeval Babes, and in a strange variation off of the ethereal theme that has defined Delerium, Matthew Sweet, marking the first time male vocals have been used