It may not be riot grrrl, but Skinny Girl Diet are grrrls and they do kick out a riotous punky racket. They go by the simple names of D, U and A. The guitar sound’s sludgy overdriven buzz that rips through the speakers and provides the perfect backdrop to the sneering vocals of A – or maybe it’s U or A. It’s not simply a six-track EP, but a summation of anger and disaffection, brimming with energy and bile: ’Hate You’ is a brilliantly direct burst of petulance.
‘Prozac Nation’ follows the classic quiet / loud grunge dynamic, and it does sound very like Hole (before they went crap with ‘Celebrity Skin’). It’s a great song ‘My heart, my heart’s not in it’ A (or U or A) drawls. If ‘Burnout’ has echoes of L7’s ‘Pretend We’re Dead’, it’s a grimier, snarlier, more abrasive slice of grunge pie.
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Authentic, stroppy and punk to the core, this is music that gets the blood pumping, that doesn’t give fuck about trend or any of that crap. Please can I join the gang?
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