Love and Rockets - Express (1986)
(3 of 5 stars)
It is obvious this album is from the 80’s. It doesn’t get the happy goth gloom dance electric energy that depeche mode accomplished. Noises are more random at times, but not random enough. I in fact found myself just growing tired of the sound now and then. I’m not sure if its due to not being in the mood, or not ready for what was once experimental and appreciated and now is simply old and unwanted. The combinations of horns now and then does create a different sound, but I could do without that difference. Honestly I think it is something you could grow to appreciate somewhere in the realm of echo and the bunnymen and other such 80’s bands. This isn’t a one listen appreciation album, which probably means somewhere there is a home for this in your collection. But I’ve not been convinced there is a place in my collection for this album.