DELORO play a CD release show Friday (Octo ber 7) at the Silver Dollar. See listing. Rating: NNN
You may not be familiar with the name Deloro, but if you spend any time around Toronto’s music scene there’s a good chance you’ll recognize the members’ faces. Jennifer Castle has her own psych-blues project, Dave Clarke and Paul Mortimer play in One Hundred Dollars, Tony Romano is a visual artist, and Dallas Wehrle comes from the indefinitely on-hiatus Constantines.
That’s a lot of country/folk talent for one band, even if none of them are marquee names on their own. They try to spread it around equally, alternating vocal and songwriting duties. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, but unified by a general atmosphere of exhausted dejection – a late-night the-party’s-gone-on-too-long vibe summoned by distortion and reverb.
At their best, as on Castle’s Watertower, they recall an updated Crazy Horse. At their worst, they sound like a sloppier, less rehearsed version of their respective main outfits. Thankfully, it’s more the former than the latter.
Top track: Watertower
