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Ambient scifi music for journeys to the rift

Delays Have Dangerous Ends are an Australian duo creating cinematic ambient science fiction music through improvised guitars, keyboards and effects.

Guitarist Matthew Syres brings years of experimental, industrial and post rock to the fray while keyboardist Genevieve Von Black injects mashups of jazz, doom and influences from prog rock and heavy classical.

Delays was formed in the bleak Sydney autumn of 2022 with an improvisation responding to ravens singing as the moon rose in the fading afternoon light. Listeners are immersed in cinematic landscapes like this, travelling from sublimely beautiful planets to darkly epic apocalypses.

Their music explores their love of all the dark things - think of the darker parts of Bohren and der Club of Gore, The Necks, Nick Cave, Alister Spence, Joseph Tawardros, Vangelis, Saint Vitus, Earth, Oren Ambarchi, Alice Coltrane, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cluster, Sunn O))), Merzbow, science fiction and Nordic noir. 

Their 2024 tour took in the Essence Festival of Extreme and Diverse Music (ACT), MONA (Tas), Make It Up Club (Bar Open) (Vic) and Lazybones Lounge (NSW). In 2025, Delays sold out the PACT Theatre in Sydney.

Delays are releasing 9 tracks showcasing their early work. Their 8th track, Papa Odysseas, is a love letter to Vangelis and came out in August 2025. Their 9th track, Seven Nights Nine Times Nine, came out on 17 October.

Their music reflects the idea that we live in a Blade Runnerish dystopian world.

 - Dan Nahum, Director - Essence Festival of Extreme and Diverse Music

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    Seven Nights Nine Times Nine 10:56
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    Papa Odysseas 10:44
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    Al-Zubair (Sheik) 9:59
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    Instruments Of Darkness Tell Us Truths 17:43
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    Raven Street 13:01
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    As If You Were Destined To Live Forever (Don't Behave) 12:48
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    Last Stop 9:50
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    Their Acts Being Seven Ages 9:30
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    You Were Warned 16:22
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Latest Track

Hypnotic music from the last oasis on a desert planet

Delays Have Dangerous Ends take you on a caravanserai trek through the night on a desert planet. A haunting 9 note piano motif descends like a sunset and the caravan slowly pulls into a hypnotic and timeless journey to the oasis of its destination.

Sumptuous track video out soon.

For fans of: The Necks, Anouar Brahem, Joseph Tawadros, Yazz Ahmed, Glass Beams, Dhafer Youssef, Rabih Abou-Khalil

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