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| Allmusic |
 Gary Go rose to attention after touring the U.K. with Take That, and his self-titled debut offers the same sort of epic, polished pop that Take That embraced post-reunion. This is unapologetically commercial stuff, laced with touches of symphonic strings and fueled by choruses that aim for the cheap seats at Wembley Stadium. The genre is certainly familiar -- a veritable melting pot of Keane, the Script, and greeting card sentiment -- yet Go still manages to carve out his own identity, appropriating the chimes of U2's guitars and the polished piano balladry of Coldplay without succumbing to complete imitation. Of course, it doesn't hurt that he simply doesn't look like a pop star, preferring tailored suits and prominent eyeglasses to the more informal attire of his contemporaries. The emphasis here remains on his music, though, all of which was self-produced by Go on a relatively shoestring budget. Songs like "Wonderful" and "Engines" are the sort of anthemic tracks often dreamed up in million-dollar studios, but Go helms them at half the price, filling his sonic canvas with double-tracked vocals, keyboard loops, and enough palpable yearning to garner radio attention. The fact that the end results sound similar to Go's machine-made rivals proves to be a double-edged sword, however, both attracting fans for its genuine approach and repelling others for its similarity to manufactured pop....full text |
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| Guardian |
| Damningly dubbed "a one-man Coldplay", Gary "Go" Baker will get his big break this summer, when he supports Take That on their stadium tour. It's obvious why he got the gig, rather than scores of other new songwriters: his musical values are so similar to Take That's that you can hardly see the join. Singing in a light, yearning voice (and, you imagine, clasping his aching heart as he does so), he achieves a sound nearly as grand and polished as theirs on a 10th of the budget (so imagine what he could do with the orchestral backing his songs demand). The scale of his ambition is most obvious on the infernally catchy Wonderful, into which he pours not just his wounded feelings but a wall of sound. His inclination toward greeting-card banality is evident from titles like Life Gets in the Way and Heart and Soul, but with lush tunes like these, who needs profundity?...full text |
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| Musicomh |
Fresh from co-headlining a tour with VV Brown, and currently supporting Take That around the stadiums of the UK, Gary Go has carved out a profile for himself. But his self-titled debut album only disappoints.
First track Open Arms starts well. Immediately Go's vocals bring Justin Currie of Del Amitri to mind. But as verse turns to chorus it all falls apart. Similarly a few of the songs that come with the starting point of a good melody, somewhere get lost. Every track feels uninspired and forgettable. Sticking at a mid-tempo pace the album drags.
There's undoubtedly a market for it, but where the likes of Go's would-be peers Maroon 5 and The Script have backed up their MOR output with at least some invention or emotion, Gary Go the album offers neither and doesn't feel authentic. It's interesting to note that, despite a forceful nudge from the hype machine, his debut single, the woefully boring Wonderful, only charted at Number 25. Maybe this mass-produced singer-songwriter shtick is a thing of the past....full text |
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