Culled from LITTLE FISH’S psychotically-inclined, Linda Perry-produced debut album ‘Baffled & Beat’, ‘Sweat N Shiver’ is as close to anthemic, linear pop as the Oxford duo have strayed as yet.
Built upon the solid bedrock of Nez Greenaway’s thunderous drumming, chunky guitar chords and a shading of Seeds-style organ, it features Juju Sophie’s throatiest and seductive vocal yet (“for you, I could live on a grain of sugar,” she rasps at one point) and it wraps itself in the sort of hedonistic garage rock cloak that never really goes out of fashion. In her usual abstract manner, Juju apparently found the song’s inspiration from her shadow “following me into a motel.” Yeah. Well it clearly turned into a poltergeist while it was there. Wonder how many tellies went out the window that week?
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Whatever, it’s all good. While ‘Sweat N Shiver’ isn’t as brain-flayingly intense as either ‘Am I Crazy?’ or ‘Whiplash’, it more than makes up for it by boasting the best tune of the three. It will give you thrills as well as chills and it won’t harm Little Fish’s chances of swimming away from the densely-populated Indie shoals for good.
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