Detroit Music

Even though they're from Detroit, there's something unshakably English about Explicits. The way they've managed to wrap old school post-punk in layers upon layers of synthy, spacey glow feels a little more mid-Atlantic than your run-of-the-mill bedroom pop. And unlike most genre dabblers, they don't feel constrained to the microcosmic. This cut off their upcoming release The Uncanny Valley is about four times the length of your average lo-fi demo and sustains its momentum the entire time.

Old Gods is made up of four dudes from Detroit who make absolutely monstrous sounds together. There's roars of doom, noise, and hardcore in their self-titled debut EP, which is now available at the group's Bandcamp for nary a fiver. Stream the first track from the record, "Flower of Flesh and Blood", below.

Sometimes bands can have a huge influence on music as a whole without ever even putting out a record. Detroit's Destroy All Monsters, a self-described anti-rock band active from 1973 to 1985, was one such band. Listening to their brass-studded psych-punk, you can hear how the likes of their experimental jams eventually led to the No Wave and noise rock movements. Bands like Sonic Youth took plenty from Destroy All Monsters; Thurston Moore even made their demos available to the public on a three-disc CD compilation in 1994. Listen to "You're Gonna Die" below to see what I mean.