Detroit7's new release is the sound of Led Zeppelin, Nirvana and Kiyoshiro Imawano being shackled in a shower room together and sprayed with sulfuric acid until they dissolve into a messy pile of punk-rock metal gunk -- and the detritus we get on their new five-track "EP Vol. 1" is "bad" in a very good way.
A former indie band just snapped up by Toshiba-EMI (maybe because they are fronted by Tomomi Nababa; if Kurt Cobain was a disaffected straggly-haired blond-locked Japanese chick this would be her), they will play at the Summer Sonic festival next month. It's a shame I won't be at that particular event. The green mountains and glistening streams of Naeba at Fuji Rock is a vacation for me; not the gray tarmac of Makuhari in Chiba.
I'm hanging out with Detroit7 (Tomomi on vocals and guitar, Nobuaki Kotajima on bass, and Miyoko Yamaguchi on drums) at their rehearsal studio a few train stops from Ikebukuro, watching them laying down new tracks for the projected "EP Vol. 2," and the first question is . ..