{"id":13732,"date":"2020-10-24T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13732"},"modified":"2020-10-21T20:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:06:57","slug":"helen-love-power-on-go-alcopop-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13732","title":{"rendered":"Helen Love – \u2018Power On, Go!\u2019 (Alcopop! Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Four years on since \u2018Smash Hits\u2019, any fans will be relieved to know that little has changed in the dayglo world of Helen Love. No introspective, bleak dramas or unwelcome ballads. If anything, this album is more in your face, relentlessly upbeat and frenetic. The usual lyrical suspects are here; Ramones, glitter pop, radios and plastic.<\/p>\n

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In the current climate, this is quite a relief. No mention of the \u2018real\u2019 world, you can lose yourself in Helen\u2019s bold, primary colour land. \u2018I Wanna Hold Your Hand\u2019 (not that one) is jubilant; \u201cI\u2019m in love and it feels so good\u201d. I\u2019m glad someone\u2019s happy! It\u2019s a rarity nowadays. Single \u2018Debbie Takes Control Of The Radio\u2019 comes on like a bubblegum Sputnik, complete with \u2018Pump It Up\u2019 sample. \u2018Jackie\u2019 has a riff to make Johnny Ramone smile, \u2018Dead In My Head\u2019 has a suitably Buzzcocks intro, while \u2018Sandra Dee\u2019 waxes lyrical about Ms Newton John.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Power Of The Music\u2019 is like a kids\u2019 birthday party full of those lovely old E numbers, on a trampoline. And it references \u2018Shout It Out Loud\u2019. \u2018Star\u2019 is equally nuts; \u201cwe love the way you dance in your plastic pants like a New York Doll\u201d. \u2018You Wear Your Hair Long\u2019; \u201clike Joey Ramone\u201d. Obviously. What else were you expecting? \u2018On My Own\u2019 condenses a Duncan Reid album into one song.<\/p>\n

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Helen Love clearly makes music because she loves it. It won\u2019t win over doubters, or Radiohead fans, but that\u2019s not the point. If you want an escape from grim reality, this is what the doctor ordered.<\/p>\n

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Author: Martin Chamarette<\/p>\n

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Four years on since \u2018Smash Hits\u2019, any fans will be relieved to know that little has changed in the dayglo world of Helen Love. No introspective, bleak dramas or unwelcome ballads. If anything, this album is more in your face, relentlessly upbeat and frenetic. The usual lyrical suspects are here; Ramones, glitter pop, radios and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4361,6009],"class_list":["post-13732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-alcopop-records","tag-helen-love","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13735,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13732\/revisions\/13735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}