CrashDiet are:Dave Lepard, 25 – singer and guitarist, Martin Sweet, 25 – guitarist, Peter London, 22 – bass player, and Eric Young, 20 – drummer. Hailing from Stockholm (what is it about Sweden and glam these days?), they are unashamedly 1980’s and deck themselves out in leopardprint spandex, tight trousers and lashings of lipsticks. You can almost smell the Aqua-Net from here.

High pitched vocals, HUGE choruses, purposely mis-spelt song titles (eg. Knokk ‘Em Down, Breakin’ The Chainz) and four men who look like Sunset Strip throwbacks made me like this album straight away. And the music is excellent too.

The start of Out Of Line sounds uncannily like the beginning of the Crue’s Ten Seconds To Love. Knokk ‘Em Down kind of reminds me of Ratt (minus Stephen Pearcy’s questionable vocals). All good signs!

Queen Obscene (69 shots) has the best chorus I’ve heard in ages. While some bands sound 80’s metal influenced, Crash Diet sound as if they are actually still in that decade at times.
‘You’re a sex bomb love machine,
69 shots of gasoline.’
If only more bands these days would write lyrics like that, rather than wittering on about fair trade and macrobiotic diets.

Least favourite would be It’s A Miracle. I find the chorus slightly irritating, and the whole song lacks the sleaziness that makes the rest of the album so fantastic, but that’s the only bad thing I could say about Rest In Sleaze. This is a fantastic record and I think it’s going to be on my CD player for a very long time. They deserve to be hugely famous, but let’s face it- the general population have proven themselves time and time again to have absolutely zero taste in music, so buy this and enjoy the fact that it’s an undiscovered gem. As soon as my first listen of this album ended, I hit play and listened to it all over again.

Crash Diet have come from a time machine in 1987 to kick your ass. You should let them!

7.5/10
Suzie