The Stone Roses can leave Silvertone and catch onto the seventies revival, but Silvertone can always...sign Whiteout.
The third Silvertone single from the Scottish upstarts is about summer holidays and the music fits well. "Detroit" has a sun-drenched swing, quite similar in effect to the groovy, up-beat sections of Blind Melon's "No Rain." The lyrics are somewhat difficult to decipher, but they keep saying "Welcome to your holidays" and something like "You can feel the rhythm in your hair." Released before the Stone Roses Second Coming, the Roses "Love Spreads" single nonetheless makes a good point of comparison. "Detroit" is as much fun as "Love Spreads" and avoids the slide guitar Zeppelinisms.
The third song on the single, "Dee Troyt," offers up an unplugged version complete with Beach Boys harmonies. The song ends with the acapella repetition of the phrase, "Then you'll feel like me." The vocal harmonies are well done, and slowed down and warped this song is at first difficult to peg as somehow related to the a-side.
Between the two versions of "Detroit" is a country-tinged instrumental called "Just Passing Through Kid." Not as groovy and acid-jazz- inflected as the Stone Roses' b-side instrumental "Breakout." Still, Silvertone could be doing much worse.
- Tim Mohr
