Delta 72

August 8 - 15, 1 9 9 6 [Off the Record]

*** Delta 72

R&B OF MEMBERSHIP

(Touch & Go)
From Elvis in Memphis, Fugazi's In on the Killtaker, and Antioch Arrow's Gems of Masochism all belong to the "R&B of Membership." It's a club consisting of moments. Elvis belongs for the moment when he sucks in that one gasp of air and leaps forth with "I had to leave town just for a little while." The same for Delta 72 on "Satellite," when the band teeter on the lip of that same cliff. You anticipate restraint, but they jump instead with a female voice that rides the pummeling sound into the canyon with a shriek.
To Delta 72 freedom means free to feel, and living within the moment is a sure way of destroying politics. It's here that one can rip off ideologically disparate rockers, as Delta 72 do, and then simultaneously pronounce them dead-at-birth and immortal. These motives are made implicit when guitarist Jason Kourkounis proclaims: "We are here to bring the R&B back into punk rock and to make people dance again."
-- Justin Farrar
(Delta 72 play upstairs at the Middle East this Monday, August 12.)