Description:	7" on Stranded Soldier
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Pop
	Label:	Stranded Soldier
	Price:	£2.79
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Ant on 23 October 2008.

This Detroit Social Club 'Rivers And Rainbows' 7" record is shitting out the door this week. Apparently there is a massive buzz about this geordie band. I was expecting somthing a bit more accessible and polished but it's not bad really. We're reminded a tiny bit of Brian Jonestown Massacre and Phil reckons the vocal is a bit like Ian astbury from The Cult. It's quite a dark tune that gets like Michael Gira or something at the end. Apparently Kasabian have called them some kind of saviours of British guitar music. Not bad at all for a buzz band with its slow druggy sound.

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What their label says...

Buzz is something of a loaded term in the music industry, one best used with caution. But to say things have happened ridiculously quickly for Newcastle sextet Detroit Social Club wouldn't quite be telling the whole story.

They might recently have been anointed by Kasabian's Tom Meighan as the new saviours of British guitar music, but it was actually well over a year ago that chief direction former David Burn started writing the songs alone in his studio/practice room The Garage that would, almost accidentally, set tongues wagging hastily in his native North East.

It was never even Burn's intention to bring them to a wider audience, initially, though that's the inevitable path Detroit Social Club now tread. Songs like already-traditional set closer 'Sunshine People' and 'Rivers and Rainbows' demand it.

And when those early, self-produced demos were posted to a mysterious, faceless Myspace page, people began bandying around adjectives like 'genius' and 'prophet'. But there was no band then, and the scuzzy, fuzzy and, truth be told, refreshingly fantastic nature of the material was crying out for it to be played live.

So Detroit Social Club became a band. In came a couple of long term associates, the rest musicians drawn from acts who practiced in the other rooms of Burn's Garage complex. That their titanic live show came together so quickly afterwards should be no surprise - not only did they all know each from many shared years on the Newcastle gigging scene, they'd also picked up a thing or two, or several, about playing along the way.

That was May 2008, and in the four months since they've assembled their self-released double A debut single with help from Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys/Foals), had its AA side played by Zane Lowe two weeks after it was written and turned hundreds away from a sold-out show at hometown venue The Cluny. In that sense, the 'buzz' is certainly building.

Right now, though, for Detroit Social Club such achievements feel like the start of something far greater than the feel of the glare from a fleeting spotlight. A list of influences could easily encompass bands as great and diverse as The Verve, Gomez, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Tamla Motown, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Beck and The Velvet Underground, but what's more impressive is that, more than any of those, it's the ideal of what Detroit Social Club could be that fuels this nascent fire.

"This is our chance," says Burn. "Things are going to change, but this is what we've dreamed of since we first picked up guitars ten years ago."