Hailed by critics and fans alike, The Sights continue to build on an incredible legacy of uncanny blues-rock-power pop.  Famed typhoon of rock and roll energy Eddie Baranek (guitar/vocals) is joined by Dave Lawson (bass/vocals), Gordon Smith (guitar, keyboards and vocals) and Skip Denomme (drums) to deliver incredible songwriting and electrifying live performances.

With 2010’s “Most of What Follows Is True,” The Sights have achieved an unprecedented level of song and studio craftsmanship.  In an era of soulless keyboards, drum machines and Autotune, The Sights respond with thrillingly catchy songs.  No gimmicks, no studio trickery – just rock and roll from the heart.  The Sights combine the unobtrusive honesty of The Band with countless slivers of influence from their own personal record collections:  Ike & Tina, Solomon Burke, The Everly Brothers, Bob Seger, Tim Hardin and all manner of raucous, infectious songwriting.

Raucous?  Infectious? That pretty well sums up The Sight’s live shows as well.  It’s a rocket-ride that has been experienced by countless audiences throughout North America and Europe.  The Sights have shared the stage with some best in the business:  Robert Plant, The Dirtbombs, Sloan, The Datsuns, The Donnas, The Bravery, The Kills, etc...

The Sight’s precocious ability to blend frenetic garage rock with 60’s pop and create something equally classic and catchy has garnered consistently rave reviews from both the both sides of the pond.  NME wrote “(The Sights are) a revelation - a treasure trove of sparky and wildly immediate songwriting" while Rolling Stone commented “at last - a new Detroit-garage band that comes in colors."

It’s part of an impeccable track record that is rooted in an immaculate Detroit pedigree: a half-century of some of the world’s greatest music with great contributions by The Sights.  Starting in the summer of 1998, Baranek fronted evolving line-ups through 2000’s “Are You Green?,”  2002’s “Got What We Want” and 2005’s self-titled “The Sights” – all recorded at Jim Diamond’s (White Stripes, Electric Six, Dirtbombs) Ghetto Recorders in Detroit.

If you love the melting pot that is American rock and roll and if you love – really love – passionate songs that fire your imagination and move your ass, then you are going really love The Sights.

Discography:
 • 2000 - Are You Green?
 • 2001 – The Sights 4-song Double 7”
 • 2002 - Got What We Want
 • 2004 - Sticks and Stones b/w Stop and Think It Over 7"
 • 2005 – The Sights
 • 2010 – Most of What Follows Is True

Detroit MetroTimes December 2009 (link)

City Pulse December 2009 (link)

Detroit Free Press December 2009 (link)

At last -- a new Detroit-garage band that comes in colors. Got What We Want was cut in 2001 with a different lineup, but it affirms what I saw at recent Sight-ings in Texas and New York: Guitarist Eddie Baranek sings like he has a good case of Badfinger and writes with the R&B concision of '65 Motown, while the pools of mellotron and circus organ in "Don't Want You Back" and "Sorry Revisited" carry the '68 stamp of the day-glo Pretty Things and Michigan's own forgotten SRC.
- David Fricke, Rolling Stone - Issue #921

Anyone who thought Detroit's rock'n'roll production line was in danger of seizing up for another 20 years in the wake of The White Stripes is in for a real shock when they hear this.

The Sights are four 20-something kids fronted by the sharpy talented Eddie Baranek. Despite their comparative youth, this is already their second album following on from 1999's rough and ready 'Are You Green?'

Still, what a difference a couple of years can make. 'Got What We Want' is a revelation - a treasure trove of sparky and wildly immediate songwriting.

Taking its cue from scuzzed '60s beatpop, it manages to cram echoes of Supergrass, The Who and (soon-to-be-hip-again) '70s rockers Humble Pie into its 11 tracks. It's the coolest and most accomplished rock'n'roll record to come out of Detroit since 'White Blood Cells'.

Guilty

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