★★★★★
Having already earned their reputation with a series of sold out shows with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Cold War Kids, Southern California's Delta Spirit arrive at their debut with a full head of steam and an album that sounds like they're eager to capitalize on their momentum. As such, Ode to Sunshine crackles with flailing guitar lines and bounding piano parts, with creaking vocals and sighing melodies planting them at the confluence of Supergrass' spunky Brit-pop and Spoon's garage soul...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
On its self-titled third album, San Diego quintet Delta Spirit takes the vibrant energy of its rousing rock to a whole other level. Ascendant four-part harmonies on top of drum-machine samples and soaring guitars make for an earnest, ragged attack that's at once familiar and timeless. There's some Springsteen in the sing-along choruses, some Neil Young in the quieter moments. If these are supposed to be feel-good songs, they sure do work just fine.
- filtermagazine.com
2012-03-26
★★★★★
Delta Spirit first caught attention with the folk-tinged rock on their debut record Ode to Sunshine, an album characterized with an abundance of energy and soul. They've since found brethren in bands of a feather like Deer Tick and Dawes (with the lead singers of all three bands forming the supergroup Middle Brother) and enjoyed critical acclaim and a supportive fan base...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2012-03-15
★★★★★
Delta Spirit's mystique has always been rooted in their contradictions. Their name evokes images of the old, scary South of blues and curses, but the band hails from the ocean-cooled climes of California--far away from deals with the devil and sweaty juke joints...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-03-15
★★★★★
Last year, Delta Spirit performed at Newport Folk Fest and opened for My Morning Jacket and John Fogerty. The pairings were appropriate, given that the Long Beach-via-San Diego quintet's first two albums were largely rustic, folk-tinged affairs. They approach their music with a broader palette on their third, homonymous album -- and the results are spectacular...
- thephoenix.com
2012-03-15
★★★★★
Release Date: March 13, 2012 It's always an interesting thing when a band decides to self-title an album a few years removed from their inception. Often times bands credit the decision as some kind of deep artistic statement that fully represents the band's most complete effort to date. Any attempt to validate such a cause can be answered with the new self-titled effort from California/Brooklyn's Delta Spirit...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-03-15
★★★★★
Delta Spirit is a band poised for arena rock - a statement, depending on your perspective, that is at once the most thrilling and damning thing that can be said about a band. It has implications denoting a band's well-deserved success but connotes the possibility and inevitability of a loss of audience intimacy, intimacy that a band like Delta Spirit has been carefully building over the years...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2012-03-15
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Full House SoCal's Delta Spirit have released their self-titled third full-length, providing a fuller, wider range of sound than previous works. Anyone familiar with "Devil Knows You're Dead" from their second album or the track from the final scene of the final season of Friday Night Lights should expect this whole album to be that sound multiplied by three. There are lots of great things happening with the guitar and percussion...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-03-15
★★★★★
The first album by Delta Spirit, Ode to Sunshine, contained a lot of energy, a nice antidote to some of the lethargic indie pop of the time. It was a pleasing enough record, but the follow-up, 2010's History From Below, fell flat. Their third, self-titled, full-length finds the band unable to rise out of their own formulas. The up-tempo numbers, once the band's strength, feel forced...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-03-15
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