Description:	12" on Secretly Canadian
	Format:	12" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Lounge / Kitsch
	Label:	Secretly Canadian
	Price:	£3.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Phil on 28 May 2008.

Music Go Music are a new signing to Secretly Canadian. This is weird. I wasn't expecting this at all. It's like the soundtrack to the musical 'Hair' crossed with Abba. It's enormously pompous and ever so slightly cringey. Probably a lot so in fact....The elder members of your family will be digging this one. Now it sounds like The Carpenters. Whatever this sounds like it's roots are firmly entrenched in the 70's and if ever a record sounded like a pair of really colourful flares it was this one. 'Light Of Love' is a limited thing with only 75 being made available to the UK!

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What their label says...

Music Go Music have the simple syrup of pop extravagance running through their veins. These arena-sized songs are composed with such savage efficiency that you find yourself humming along before two bars have gone by. They are as assured and crafted as ABBA and ELO's best songs of '76, yet Music Go Music sounds fresh. They've exploded the formulas from the inside out, sounding like a hundred others and no one else. 'Light of Love' is a true celebration of pop music's potential - laying a thin sheen of magic over the world around it, and making the tedious bits of the human experience a little less so.

Thirty years ago these songs would have been recorded by coke-fueled session musicians and millionaire producers in Nassau or Stockholm for $5000 a day. They would have been performed in huge arenas and played in every mall as the soundtrack to the prom queen's shopping spree. It was music made by the few for the very, very many. Thirty years on, it could only be re-imagined by a band whose members came of age playing music in the tradition of those that ended up killing it off; the punkers. Now that punk's branches sag heavy with the crass kudzu of x-treme ubiquity (hot topic, wallet chains, totally-in-your-face mountain dew commercials), it's old nemesis has become the new underdog. This time it's leaner, wiser, and has been distilled down to an essence of the bloated dinosaur that it grew into the last time around. There are no wasted notes, no fat, no filler. 'Light of Love' plays like the first three tracks of a future Greatest Hits album.

"Speak to me, darling in hushed tones. Tell me your heart's true desire" sings Gala Bell on the title track, equal parts Debbie Harry, Karen Carpenter, and Kate Bush. Maybe it's the wonderfully layered vocals, maybe the rich synth textures, maybe their impossibly uplifting nature, but there is something immediately familiar about these songs. At first listen, we're inexorably drawn into their sphere. For at least a moment, we are surrounded by the halo of their refracted energy - we can bask in the light of love.