Music Go Music/ Expressions

Music Go Music
Expressions
(Mercury/Secretly Canadian)

Remember those mixtapes you used to make for people you fancied? Remember the hours of effort that went into producing them? How about the awkwardness of trying explain your feelings on an 80 minute cassette without having to spread one of the songs over two different sides?
Well, now imagine making another mixtape - not because you dislike someone, but because you just want to freak them out a bit. Not in a creepy way, but enough for the other person to seriously consider re-evaluating their friendship with you.
Music Go Music’s debut feels rather like the latter, taking a scattergun approach to songwriting that hits as many musical reference points as possible. In theory, this could be a devastating way to produce an album; the execution on Expressions, however, proves that it is not without its pitfalls.
The trouble is that this ricocheting from style to style leaves the album feeling a little disjointed and hard to engage – rather like a poorly assembled mixtape. For example, ‘Light Of Love’ is about as Eurovison as you can get without actually having it sung by Terry Wogan, but is immediately followed by the delightful ‘1000 Crazy Nights’ which has a sixties groove worthy of a Scooby Doo montage.
With no common thread running through Expressions (save for the fact that it’s psychedelically weird) the album has a tendency to wander – and, unfortunately for Music Go Music, your interest will, too.