THEIR mix of euphoric electronica and anthemic guitar melodies has been described as "music for a post-dance world". Since getting together in Manchester last year, Delphic have appeared on Later… With Jools Holland, signed to Polydor and released debut album Acolyte.

You came fourth in the BBC's Sound of 2010 poll. Are you trying not to think about things like that?

Yes, definitely. It sounds like a cliché, but we try not to think about hype, reviews and things people are saying about us.

It's a great thing to be included in, but we try to stay in our bubble of gigs and recording. We've got our own ideas of what we want to do and don't want anything to influence that. Luckily for us the album came out a week after the list was announced, so all the talk quickly had some substance to it because we could back it up with a record.

Where did you all meet?

Me and Matt went to school together, and were in a band called Snowfight. I went to uni with James, who also tinkered around with the band before we broke up. We realised there was more of a connection between the three of us than there was with the rest of the band.

There's always been a tradition with Manchester bands to combine guitars with elements of dance music. New Order, Happy Mondays, right through to Doves. Why is that sound so prevalent in the city?

I really don't know why it is. In the early 90s, Manchester embraced dance music and acid house more than any other city, and that's stayed around. I don't know what attracts other people to it. We grew up listening to dance music; all the Manchester stuff, as well as Chemical Brothers, Orbital and techno music from Detroit. There's always melancholy to Manchester music, too. I think it's endearing, though.

But you're not from Manchester, are you?

No we're not! It's weird, because everyone likes to call us a Manchester band and we're completely fine with that, but James is from Wiltshire and me and Matt are from Derbyshire. We all live in Manchester now because we wanted to get involved here, and we do feel a bit detached from the whole Manchester thing, but journalists really like to write about it. But it's not like we were in the Hacienda. We're not old enough for a start – we're only 25.

It's been said that your record is basically what everyone wanted Klaxons to release next. Do you agree with that?

I think musically we're very different. We're two bands fusing indie and dance. We respect them a lot, and know them a bit – we share a record label – but we come from very different places. We think they're maybe more of a guitar band than us, whereas everything we do starts electronically with the instruments added afterwards. When they do release their second album, I don't think it'll sound anything like our record.

Have you got a favourite song on the album?

To be honest, I find it really hard to listen to the album, but the last song, Remain, is the one I like best, because it's the one that our producer Ewan did most to. It's the song on the album that moved the most away from what we'd planned, so it feels really fresh to me. All the other ones are like torture because I just want to add things and change bits. Just because I can't listen to it, though, doesn't mean I'm not massively proud of the album.