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ALBUM TITLE: It Must Be Love
RATING: Good
The United Kingdom has always been known for its synthesizer brass-carried pop, the faux trumpets, trombones and French horns carrying a tune easily danceable and even more easily hummable. Out of Scotland now come Tommy Clark and Derek McDonald, better known as Mero, the latest incarnation of that easy pop sound. Its debut EP, �It Must Be�� is a seven-track collection of music to swing, roller skate and talk to; the 60s never looked so good.
Debut single and first track �It Must Be Love,� remixed to nauseatingly sweet perfection by Steve Mac (who�s worked with Westlife), is a fine example of this return to the classic swinging horn-carried pop. The two lads� sing-by-number vocals mix just fine with the standards arrangement; it�s almost odd to think that they write their own material.
Strangely enough, the other songs on the album, while equally bubbly, sound like rehashes of �It Must Be Love.� You can hear the late 80s Robert Palmer influence in �All You Gotta Do� and �Keys To Heaven,� given (shudder) a boy band flavor for the new 2 triple 0. Think Rick Astley meets Tom Jones. �Reach Out� does exactly that, while �Give A Little Bit� pretty much tells the listener to do that.
Which is not to say the album isn�t good at all. As a matter of fact, the album is so good that it�s almost scary. Carl Sturken (who�s worked with Deborah Gibson) certainly ups the energy factor. With the horns and easy lyric, your eight-year-old brother and fourteen-year-old sister may find this a good listen. As for you, if you�d like to return to the late 60s and relive the Stock-Aitken-Waterman flavor of the late 80s, you�ll probably enjoy Mero.
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