Reviewed by Allen Lulu
Released: January 1 1980 Numbers (CAN) Add Up Genre: Canadian Power Pop Rating: 2.75 out of 5 Highlights: Sideways Elevator Requisite 80s cover: “Bits and Pieces”, which is moribund and yet, better than most of the stuff here. I listen to a lot of “Power Pop”. I really enjoy the genre. And I credit this group for reinforcing that love. This record isn’t a bad spin, in the least. But it’s not great. They sound like the Japanese Power Pop band, The Choosers, whose album I recently got as an import. That band sounds like what it is, second language translation of this sound. Thing is, I give them credit, English is their second language. This sounds like a band that heard a bunch of songs and tried to make their own. That’s fine. But if you are going to go grab that retro melodic PP sound, listen to the Kansas band, The Whiffs. Another Whiff could have stepped out of 1967. So could this record, but not in a good way. It’s meh.
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