Sharks

Ready Set Go

Finally getting their act together.

Sharks have had a long but ridiculously intermittent career – formed in 1972 by former Free bassist Andy Fraser with guitarist Chris Spedding, and singer Steve ‘Snips’ Parsons, they lasted a couple of years but were revived in the 90s and again around 2013 – and ironically it has become more permanent since the death of Fraser in 2015.

Ready Set Go is the follow-up to last year’s Killers Of The Deep, and the band clearly know their way around a riff and a tune. Oddly, though, some songs appear to have been constructed by flicking randomly through a rock encyclopaedia: Kink Mess merges a Bo Diddley rhythm with snippets of the Jackson

5’s I Want You Back; Crash Party borrows the riff to Then He Kissed Me and the lyrics to Sloop John B; House Of You honours Alright Now and features a superb solo from Spedding, whose playing distinguishes this album from start to finish.