Androgynous Sheffield weirdos PINK GREASE seem to have been orbiting on the fringes on your reviewer's consciousness for a good while, but haven't really crashed into his atmosphere until now.
"Fever" is the first taste of what their forthcoming debut album proper "This Is For Real" will sound like and - although I'd previously harboured reservations about this lot - it's not a bad first snog: imagine The Cramps picking up the wrong bag of drugs and coming on strong with a disco-glam fixation and you're homing in on this. It's also enhanced by a massive chorus which twats you between the eyes like a bolt from a crossbow and sounds pleasingly predatory, neither of which are bad things in my book.
Additional track "Shiver"'s quite promising, too. It's not so much of a song, more of a strut, pitching Glitter Band-style drumming against Fall-esque picked lead guitar. It's sleazy and enjoyable in a mucky kinda way, although desperate closer "2003" tries way too hard to be important over its' bouncy electro-rock groove. There again, it's only the third track on a CD single and (probably significantly) doesn't have ex-Black Grape man Stephen Lironi at the controls unlike the album sessions.
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Verdict? Good, attention-forcing start, but still not a million per cent convinced as yet. Calling your album "This Is For Real" takes plenty of living up to, because at present the smell of this here Grease paint is alluring, but still a little dubious.
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