New Music #10 Detroit Social Club

The Newcastle-born quintet, Detroit Social Club, have been hotly tipped by NME and other excitable music reviewers. In spite of this, they sound great. More often than not a band that is overly-hyped in the press, fails to live up to it. They may not have taken the world to storm quite yet, but a bright future is looking more and more likely.

'Northern Man' has some relationship with SkySports which gets them a pretty big audience itself, and the track has been gaining airtime of its own recently. The album, 'Existence', fuses messy rock with playful guitar lines, mixed together with some rather gripping harmonies.

The record is saturated with influences. The obvious ones include De La Soul, The Velvet Underground, Kasabian, Oasis, The Coral, Beck and Iggy Pop. You can hear bits of each throughout, amongst many others. To be honest there isn't a weak track. 'Rivers and Rainbows' catches you immediately, whilst 'Kiss The Sun' and 'Chemistry' build superbly. So many great ones to choose from.

Touring the UK at the moment, they're worth catching live before they evolve into bigger venues.