Title: Indicative of what's to come?
Review: Musically, there is very little on the Go-Betweens' debut album to suggest any riches to come, or, for that matter, to mark them out from the post-punk/New Wave-giving-onto-indie-rock early-80s pack. It's all tight, rhythmic drive, where everything - drums, vocals, guitars, bass - are inseperable from the general, homogenous, grey effect. This setting is perhaps appropriate for some squirmingly honest lyrics, whose very precision in charting quick-switch moods point to the Go-Between's future.There are four songs that make the album worth listening to - 'One thing can hold us', the nearest thing to a tune; 'Midnight to neon', with its violent saxophone explosion; the proto-Pulp epic 'Eight Pictures', an uncomfortably comic story of voyeurism and violation; and 'Careless', with a guitar solo that lights up the album like a flare in the night.
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