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I caught a snippet of Natalie Findlay's support slot as she played at the bottom of the bill for The Courteeners' annual Christmas Manchester arena gig last December. My first impressions of her weren't great. I felt as if her on stage bravado was extremely forced and her cockiness when replying to a Courteeners fan asking her to 'get her tits out' was unnecessarily rude, never mind how pervy the middle aged meat head may have been. Aside from this, I thought her 2012 single, 'Your Sister,' was a reasonably pleasant listen, so I thought I'd give her brand new EP, 'Greasy Love,' a shot.
The title track opens the EP in a boastful, brash explosion of scuzzy guitars and tribal drums protruded by Findlay's signature shouty vocals with the odd screech here and there. Think Alison Mosshart on a particularly nowty day. Despite the repetitive nature of this track, there is no doubt that its catchy chorus will be sealed in your brain for the rest of the day after hearing it. (I can assure you)
'FakeBlackHeart' is probably the best thing about this EP. It opens in a kind of Nirvana-esque fashion with distinctive bass before being embellished by softer vocals which are soon lost in a whirlwind of guitars and a killer melody that sounds reminiscent of Findlay's earlier material.
The final track on the EP takes a drab turn from its aggressively charged predecessors in a monotonous keyboard sequence splattered with Findlay's angry vocals which seem somewhat out of place. Lyrically, she has come up trumps on this track but melodically, its definitely as weakness on the EP. To be able to make such a slow paced, instrumentally sparse record and pull it off, you have to acquire a certain amount of skill and to say that few musicians have mastered this fine art, Findlay has sure as hell got a long way to go.
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6/10
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