Pretty Little Suicide - Pretty Little Suicide
Be sensible now, start at track 1 and listen sequentially through to track 5.
Seems obvious I know, but track 5, 'Pretty Little Suicide' is immense, and the visceral thrill it creates works better as a climactic close to this EP.
 
As I write, Pretty Little Suicide are playing Rocklahoma, headlined by Motley Crue and Whitesnake. It's another step forward for a band who're on the edge of "making it".
They gained a few headlines in the rock press a while back when the legendary Beau Hill discovered the band and insisted on producing and mixing the debut album.
They'd already recorded a handful of tracks. These have now been remixed by Hill. Ahead of the full album, this EP is the result.
 
PLS don't go anywhere new. They are visibly and audibly influenced by G'n'R, Poison, Motley Crue and others class acts who were in the vanguard of eighties' sleaze/glam melodic rock and whose currency remains relatively intact today.
You can hear them all, sometimes all at once on attractively derivative openers, 'Working Man Blues' and 'Hollywood Moonlight'.
The lightweight 'KMAG' is maybe a bit too reverential, but 'Cope', a song that deals with drug dependency, is a substantial stab at creating something original and is a welcome contribution to the genre's resurgence.
Title track, 'Pretty Little Suicide' continues the drug theme, adding a gothic wash and a heavier production to a cracking little pop metal anthem, exhorting the protagonist to face down her addiction.
It's a magnificently apposite end to a promising taster, and if the band are to write more like this for the full length debut, we're in for a treat.

Written by Brian
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Released by
Crane Records / PLS Music - 2010

Tracklisting
Working Man Blues
Hollywood Moonlight
K.M.A.G.
Cope
Pretty Little Suicide


Style
Glam Rock

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