FINALLY, after years of also-rans and could have beens, it seems Manchester has a young, up and coming band worth listening to.

Their very name meaning “ambitious or enigmatic”, Delphic seem to have appeared from nowhere.

“Enigmatic is a troublesome word,” ponders Rick Boardman, singer with the Manchester band “But we’re certainly not about living rock ’n’ roll cliches.

“We want to be in a band, we don’t want to go out and die of Jack Daniels poisoning.”

What they are about, it seems, is music that explodes with new ideas, about film, art and pushing the aural envelope.

After warming up with a couple of killer singles and a summer of crowd-moving live shows, they release their debut album, Acolyte, on Monday.

It's a record which reveals a band who elegantly move away from indie guitar action and accelerate into the future.

“The guitar is dead, long live the guitar,” says Rick, “You can use it more like a synthesiser and get so much more out of it than chugging away on chords.”

Delphic, a trio of Rick, Matt Cocksedge and James Cook, all in their early-20s, create their music on laptops in their Manchester flat, but when they take it to the stage it blooms into something much bigger. Matt adds guitar and James, bass and lead vocals, but all three of them also “twiddle with electronic gear”, augmented by drummer Dan Hadley who whales away at two drum pads.

Last year they gigged relentlessly with the likes of Orbital, Friendly Fires and La Roux.

“We played Creamfields and an Annie Mac club night but we also did the more traditional Reading Festival,” explains Matt, “We can flit between the two worlds.”

“It’s not rave,” adds Rick. “There may be references to ‘90s dance music but we also love Bjork, Radiohead, Kraftwerk and, at the other end of the spectrum, Xenomania.”