#43
February 1984
Martha and the Muffins
Mystery Walk
3 out of 5
Highlights:
Black Stations/White Stations
Come Out and Dance
I completely missed this band so my intro to them will have to be this, their FIFTH album. Who knew? Well, Martha and the Muffins fans, of course.
In the wrong hands, synth pop is…well, see Nick Kershaw. In the right hands, like, say, Danial Lanois, it sounds like Martha and the Muffins, the most unfortunately named band of the era. Well, one of.
This is blue eyed funk with a keen eye on trying to craft a dance hall hit. They open it with that track, the highly catchy “Black Stations/White Stations” and they don’t really let up on that uber competent 80s closing credits or meet cute montage ability for a while.
They get real moody toward the end of the second side and, for me, they lose the narrative, but it’s fine for background music at that point, even if it’s a little cheesy and a lot house band in a casino.
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