New York’s The Go Station have a strangely familiar Britpop sound dominating this album, which is not without it’s bright moments. Among their strongest tracks are opener ‘All Together Now’ plus ‘Twin Six’ and ‘Next In Line’. With these you can hear more of their original voice. And at best, their tunes carry purposeful, rhythmic indie rock, with some tight, energetic lead guitar, pacey drums and anthemic, crescendo choruses. But with much of the material here, on tracks such as ‘Not Enough’, ‘C’Mon’ and ‘They Way Of The World’, it’s as if someone has taken all the mid 90’s Britpop bands you can think of, liquidised them, and drunk them down in one. This means you get some good, smooth Oasis and Charlatans styled bits, but also, you end up swallowing quite a few indigestible chucks; a finger from Menswear here and testicle from Toploader there. With ‘Way Of The World’, the chorus proclaims; “It’s just the way of the world…the original sin…sign of the times…it’s the state I’m in’. For all I know, this could well be listing some of the many po-faced, pseudo-philosophical album titles prevalent back then. For fans of the bigger, broader British sounds of the previous decade, then The Go Station do what they do well. But for those who remember being saturated with this sort of thing in the mid 90s, it’s not a return journey many of us in the UK yet wish to make.
