Jim Diamond seems to be a more familiar name than Gordon Raphael these days, the Gories/Dirtbombs legend popping up more often than the proverbial jack in the box. He's got a far better strike rate than Raphael though, and whether that's because the acts he works with are more fully formed is a moot point, they're certainly more fully formed when he leaves their company. The Singles are a case in point, they hail from Detroit (of course) but they don't go in for all that sub-swamp blues/garage malarkey, rather they prefer to batter their way around a seam of power-pop that's more rock than roll. For a while there Detroit looked like it had been relocated to Louisiana, here though it sounds like someone's humped it on to a trawler and dragged it across the Atlantic to Liverpool. That's some trick, and this is some band.Suzie Q