[1] Deli Girls' 2019 release I Don't Know How to Be Happy was included in best-of-year lists by Clunk Magazine,[8] Alt Citizen,[9] The Morning News,[10] and Impose Magazine, which also called them "NYC's best DIY act";[11] the album was featured in the Bandcamp Daily "Beginner’s Guide to Digital Hardcore,"[12] VICE "essential albums" of the first half of 2019,[13] and led The Guardian to include Deli Girls in their "50 new artists for 2020.
[16] In 2023, Deli Girls released a self-titled LP, a 13-track album featuring collaborators including Swan Meat, Manapool, Murderpact, Akafaë, and Nurse.
[17] The album is dedicated to Brytani Caipa,[18] co-founder of "fundraving" collective Melting Point,[19] known for genre-diverse parties, performance protests raising money for migrants rights,[20] and its namesake goal to "melt ICE";[21] Caipa died in 2021.
[23] In May 2024, Orlowski reported that Deli Girls were confronted over pro-Palestine visuals they asked to have projected during a set at Leipzig's TRIP Festival.
[24] After being repeatedly questioned and opposed by festival staff members, Orlowski told the audience what had occurred and the band played a noise set in protest.