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On Tuesday the album was released by the popular New York indie label Self-Starter Foundation–also home to Les Savy Fav and Lifter Puller–and the Detachment Kit has become one of the most talked-about rock bands in the city. Last summer David Newgarden of Manage This!, a New York-based artist management company that handles Guided by Voices, Cibo Matto, and Mark Eitzel, heard the record, and since then he’s been informally advising the band, although he’s taken no money for his work yet. A Sunday-night gig at Metro in January drew a respectable 300-some people, the album has already cracked the top 40 on CMJ’s college radio chart, and the group is considering offers from several larger indie-rock booking agents.
An early demo had impressed Chris Newmyer of Self-Starter Foundation, who decided to release a seven-inch. But it hadn’t even come out yet when Menard hand delivered him a copy of the album, recorded in two days with engineer Greg Norman at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio. After one listen Newmyer agreed to release the full-length, scrapped the single, and in October released a ten-inch EP called Attacks on Bright America, featuring five songs from the demo.
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