The two sets of brothers,
Greg and
Aaron Gilbert and
Colin and
Rowley Fox, known as
Delays, released the follow-up to their debut album,
Faded Seaside Glamour, with
You See Colours in March 2006. Recorded at
Peter Gabriel's Real World studios and produced by
Graham Sutton, it was an indie rock guitar album dominated by
Greg Gilbert's falsetto, ethereal vocals. After their debut, they released the non-album single "Lost in a Melody," which showed more urgency than any song to date with a driving beat and a recognizable verse-chorus-verse that built to a crescendo and then musically fell off the edge , only to build again. The second album,
You See Colours featured more numbers like this, the lead single was the track "Valentine," a song with more than a hint of
a-ha,
the Cardigans, or
Jimmy Somerville, both vocally and with the pulsing synth backing, and was followed into the charts by the bouncing "Hideaway," a throwback to '80s harmony driven indie rock, although the final minute of the song is a totally different psychedelic trip out. The track "Lillian" opened with a fuzzy guitar riff and an anthemic singalong chorus, predating
the Fratellis by a couple of months and the album closed with the piano led "Waste of Space" and
Greg Gilbert's falsetto creating a pretty song that, by omitting the synth beat, goes back to where
Delays started.