Detroit Social Club : 'Kiss The Sun' EP
Released: Out Now!
Label: Fiction/Polydor
Detroit Social Club are fans of Kasabian, it will take you about 2 minutes into the opening track of this EP to work this out. They are aspiring stadium rockers, you can almost picture their ideal audience now, the disenfranchised masses who’ve still not got over the split of Oasis, yet find the likes of The Courteeners and The View a bit too indie.
From the opening of ‘Kiss the Sun’ to the final FILL of distortion on ‘Thousand Kings’ Detroit Social Club consistently fail to deliver the goods, often making it obvious what they want to achieve, yet always failing short of ever delivering it.
‘Kiss The Sun’ opens optimistically, an atmospheric clash of industrial noise and piercing guitars is let down by lazy vocals and a chorus that isn’t as catchy as it thinks it is, resulting in it all building to a predictably bland crescendo. However, ‘Black and White’ when compared to the former sounds like a sure fire hit; this isn’t a testament to the band or the quality of the song though, the song’s just slightly more listenable. That said, ‘Black and White’ still suffers from the same problem of a weak and hollow chorus that doesn’t go anywhere - it seems as if the band are unable to just let a chorus do the talking without destroying it with over-production.
For the most part Detroit Social Club are a band that will mainly infuriate the listener, their choruses are poor, songs that build without going anywhere and the musicianship isn’t particularly inspiring, however are probably too arty to appeal to the beer louts that they seem to be targeting. If they stopped trying so hard to impress and focused on making some well structured material they might have some success, luckily this is only their EP, but they need to iron out the creases before they unleash a long player onto the scene.
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