Delays feature explained that their hit single Hooray is actually about obsessive compulsive upset (OCD).
The joyous April liberation, which previewed the band's third album Everything's The Rush, is laden with happy string section and an energetic scramble but is actually about a debilitating condition, frontman Greg Gilbert revealed.
Speaking to inthenews.co.uk at the V festival in Chelmsford, Gilbert explained that the precondition had "really f****d up some relationships in my life".
"It was taking me about an hour and a half to go to bed every night, because of checking light switches etc, and if I felt like I hadn't done it the right way, I'd ingest to come back and do it again," he continued.
"It got to the point where I'd experience to say definitively: 'Done!' Mentally, I was putting a tag on everything."
He added: "I'd have this thing of looking at a light switch and seeing it was turned, but non being confident of it and like I say in the song 'I'm a garbage man tonight and I just don't believe my eyes'.
"I'd go outside and feel like I had to pluck up the crisp packets outside my house earlier I could go to bed!"
The Southampton-based singer revealed he had studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in a bid to combat his OCD merely said he continues to have a "dosey-doe effect" with the disorder.
Delays' newfangled single Keep it Simple is out now.
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