THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Ace: “Five-a-Side” (Anchor). The catchiest debut album in years is even more banal than that term normally implies, sung and played with a mildness infuriating in musicians of such talent but totally appropriate to lyricists of such underweening triviality.
THE CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
Robert Christgau
Ace: “Five-a-Side” (Anchor). The catchiest debut album in years is even more banal than that term normally implies, sung and played with a mildness infuriating in musicians of such talent but totally appropriate to lyricists of such underweening triviality. C plus. Bonnie Bramlett: “It’s Time” (Capricorn). The first two cuts on this album are the only ones I want to hear again, and one of them was co-authored by Delaney. Not promising. C plus. Can: “Soon Over Babaluma” (United Artists). As uberrock goes, this is diverting enough, ricky-ticking along through various moderately arresting sci-fi soundtrack noises, some of them melodies. But fondness for the machine does not necessitate separation from the body. Just ask Miles Davis. B minus. 1