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Expressions

Music Go Music

Expressions

Debut album of classic melodic 70s pop from the LA band

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7.1

Label
Secretly Canadian
UK Release date
06/10/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  2. 8.0 |   Q

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  3. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Abba are clearly a huge influence on Music Go Music and even though it’s so obvious that stating it seems lazy, it is hard to imagine anyone hearing Expressions and not remarking on the similarity
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  4. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    There won't be a much more fun record to "woah woah woah" along to in you car too all year
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  5. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Guilty pleasure or not, Music Go Music have created an album it's easy to enjoy. Sometimes that's more than enough
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  6. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Standout "Light Of Love" begins in a mood of galactic melancholy before bursting into hands-in-the-air abandon
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  7. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    An obvious homage to ABBA, the Carpenters, ELO, and other purveyors of the unironic, sugary pop that was a mainstay of 1970s radio. And perhaps not since those bands themselves has someone made such assuredly hooky, dramatically multi-layered tunes such as these.
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  8. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    Music Go Music has created the perfect pop song, played nine times over
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  9. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    As much as you might want to hate Expressions for all its over-the-top posturing and fantastical fetishizing of both karaoke culture and Me Decade pomposity, you will love the beautiful noise Music Go Music bring to the table
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  10. 6.0 |   NME

    That means Music Go Music are heavily armed with killer pop tunes, but there are times when the album starts to slip into wedding DJ territory
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  11. 6.0 |   The List

    Could’ve been uber-cool Tarantino soundtrack material
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  12. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    The majority of Expressions sounds like the great lost Abba album, with booty shaking radio-pop romps and melancholic disco odysseys
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  13. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    MGM have no dignity- they smell too much of cheerleader club for that- but they do have several good tunes
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