Detroit Social Club - Existence (Review)

Detroit Social Club’s offering “Existence” is drenched in strings the size of Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir, it’s a gigantic anthem about an ordinary bloke looking for answers. It’s clear that the bands intention was to create an album with a large, powerful presence and this is a goal they seem to have achieved.

Detroit Social Club are never quite as unashamedly epic again, but Prophecy contains the contractual amount of shouts of “come on”. Like Ashcroft, vocalist David Burn’s stadium-aiming passion occasionally leaves him prone to quasi-mystical guff about “shining like stars” and concluding that we’re all just floatin’ around the universe, guv. But while Existence never shakes off a sense of deja vu, fans of the Verve, Kasabian, and the Courteeners won’t have too many grumbles.

This album is dark, dark, dark rock, as should be an album with a name like ‘Existence’. And while it doesn’t have the same guitar power as, say, a Metallica album, it’s more than enough to get most hard rock heads excited that there is some attitude coming out of the Northeast.

To be honest, I wish Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam and whatever grunge bands trying to recapture their long-gone magic would stop already, because bands like this prove that there are blokes out there today ready to make their mark – and in a better way – than they did in a previous lifetime. Detroit Social Club, get ready for your close-up.

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