Fish - Under Your Skin

Fish – Under Your Skin

Chris George

It's probably not fair to focus on a band's age. Should we care if the Rolling Stones appear to have made some kind of Faustian pact for immortality or whether Paul McCartney has been pickled alive in botox? Probably not, but we still do.

With this in mind, Neon Buzz turns its attentions to Fish. Having just finished their GCSEs, logic dictates that they should be slamming their bedroom doors and playing god-awful covers of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Thankfully this isn't the case.

Written in two, alternating time signatures (an endeavour for either the talented or the misguided – in Fish's case, the former) "Under Your Skin" is an interesting little ditty. Their vocals are clean and confident with a laid-back, melodic vaguely poppy tune. There's clear influences of the mellower moments of '60s-'70s rock.

"Under Your Skin" isn't overly catchy but it's still a good, creative song, and is extremely - that dirtiest of all dirty words - promising. After all, no point in focussing on Fish's age when you could focus on their potential. And not a "Smells Like Teen Spirit" cover in sight.