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The above clip features footage of San Diego’s Delta Spirit in its recording studio as it prepared its newest offering, the June-released Histroy From Below, and felt like waxing poetically about its headspace and things like that. It’s a solid second offering from the seemingly super-consistent, country-tinged, jangly rock outfit.
When the band rolled through town back in March of 2009, Rick Mason had this much to say about them:
Emerging from the wreckage of the emo band Noise Ratchet, San Diego quintet Delta Spirit headed rootsward, picking up few specifics of the Mississippi Delta per se, but conjuring a ragged fervor that’s equal parts folkie-protest, punk, inebriated English music hall, melodic Brit-pop and vintage SoCal rock... These guys are reputedly killers live, too, and moreover seem to have found a vital avant-roots pulse that could take them far. Continue reading…
Seems to be working for them. And tomorrow night, it takes the band here to Dallas.
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