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# Pink Narcissus: Blood on the Page: Music Review
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/pink-narcissus-blood-on-the-page-music-review/
- Published: 2013-04-12T15:42:34.000Z
- Updated: 2013-05-20T15:23:24.000Z
- Description: With their new 6-track EP, Brighton’s self-styled ‘freak rockers’ Pink Narcissus have sparkled up grunge with a pinch of glitter.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Music

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With their new 6-track EP, Brighton’s self-styled ‘freak rockers’ **Pink Narcissus** have sparkled up grunge with a pinch of glitter.

**Blood on the Page**, opens without fanfare into the spitting *Victims*, a bloodied and bruised call to arms for those suffering prejudice; it’s a rip-roaring riff-filled gem filled with suitably off-kilter vocals by eccentric front man **Oli Spleen**.

The posturing Spleen’s decadent delivery counters the biting music of the cool *Traps*, a trippy number with a sardonic vocal and a great hook before tearing into the first single, *Orphan Eyes*, a swashbuckling alternative dancefloor-ready glamathon, the driving verses leading to a swirling chorus of fuzzy guitars.

Whilst, PN wear their influences on their sleeves: a bit of Nirvana here, a bit of Bowie there, they retain their own cohesive sound, which effortlessly merges 90s grunge with the pomposity of 70s glam-rock.

The semi-catatonic *Great Divide* recalls woozy mornings after sleepless heavy nights, the stench of beer and nicotine still lingering, ears still ringing, while the shuffling *Yield to the Night*, peppered with sparks of **Paddy Longlegs**‘ guitar, closes the album with unabashed sex appeal from an increasingly unhinged Spleen.

Catch Pink Narcissus at **The Green Door Store**, Brighton on **Tuesday, April 16** at **7pm**.

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