Sounds From The Junkshop #45 - Delakota
"Become part of nature's plan, where you is is where ya stand" - Delakota - 555 As with a few bands we've covered in the post-Britpop era, it was mainly the presence of a former member of the Senseless Things (yup, them again), in this case drummer Cass Browne, that drew me to Delakota. After the Things had split, Cass had filled in on drums for Urge Overkill* (see footnote at end of article) before deciding to strike out on his own with guitarist Dez Murphy. I seem to remember the group kind of being shoehorned in with the "skunk rock" movement that the NME was trying to push in 1998 or so which was basically indie-dance for the post-Britpop generation and included other bands like the Regular Fries (good), the Lo-Fidelity All-Stars (less good) and Campag Velocet (really not good) who were clearly using Primal Scream's Screamadelica album as their main touchstone. To my ears at least, Delakota were comfortably the best of the four - there was defi...