{"id":932,"date":"2010-08-16T09:54:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=932"},"modified":"2010-08-16T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:54:26","slug":"delta-spirit-history-from-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/delta-spirit-history-from-below\/","title":{"rendered":"DELTA SPIRIT + History From Below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/History-From-Below-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-933\" title=\"History-From-Below-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/History-From-Below-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"History From Below\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/History-From-Below-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/History-From-Below-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>D<\/strong><strong>ELTA SPIRIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>History From Below<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rounder]<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of great indie-rock acts out there, but do you want some morose shoegazers playing your July 4 picnic? Better to hire the Delta Spirit, a San Diego quintet that delivers its smart, contemplative Americana with a dash of self-awareness and an occasional smile. The band cut <em>History From Below<\/em>, its sophomore album, at the California studio favored by Tom Waits, a choice that hardly seems coincidental. When he\u2019s not channeling Bob Dylan\u2014the inspiration behind the veritable \u201cDon\u2019t Think Twice\u201d rewrite \u201cScarecrow,\u201d among other songs\u2014singer Matt Vasquez plays scrubbed-up versions of Waits-style underdogs\u2014guys with holes in their shoes as well as their hearts. When the group is cooking, as on the rollicking opener \u201c911,\u201d it deftly juggles populist politics, old-timey musicianship and modern indie energy. The ballads are spottier, sometimes collapsing under the weight of their woe-is-me sentiments, but the band scores big with closer \u201cBallad of Vitaly,\u201d a Russian true-crime tale that remains captivating for all eight of its minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013KP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DELTA SPIRIT History From Below [Rounder] There are lots of great indie-rock acts out there, but do you want some morose shoegazers playing your July 4 picnic? Better to hire the Delta Spirit, a San Diego quintet that delivers its smart, contemplative Americana with a dash of self-awareness and an occasional smile. The band cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,537,538,80,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}