The new album “Now Was Once The Future” by Gary Go is not the happy, high energy set of songs that I normally like. What Gary Go has produced on this 7 track album is a story about being broke up with the one he loves. At least that’s the way it sounds like, that he has broken up with the one he was in love with or maybe it was he was the one dumped, either way the songs are depressing. Listening to it made me want to turn it off, not because I was overcome with feelings of sadness or memories of my own lost love, but because what I was hearing just got on my nerves.
My best interpretation of some of these songs is to remind you of a friend who was deeply in love with someone who leaves that friend, now remember what you had to listen to from that heartbroken friend. Yeah you wanted to be there as a friend for comfort but listening to the whine and woes me very quickly made you want to just run out screaming. It’s this feeling that I got from listening to “Now Was Once The Future” and it’s the reason why I didn’t like it. When I listen to a song I want the song to make me feel better, whether it’s making me want to scream out in fury letting out some pint up anger/energy or it making me want to whistle as I walk through the isles in the grocery store. But one thing I don’t want a song to do is make me feel sad when I’m not sad.
Gary Go voice gets a bit whiney with some of the songs, especially with ‘Superfuture’ and ‘I Want My Heart Broken Again’ giving the songs a little more of that depressing sound. Though it’s not his vocals that I dislike about the songs, it’s the lyrics and tempo of the songs. If this had been a more upbeat song set, one that’s not about such heartache, than I think I would have enjoyed it more. What’s disappointing about this album is that the sounds being played with the instruments loses some of it’s enjoyment because I’m too focused on the songs being over with. If there were no vocals, these songs would have been really good, even yet they would have been fun to listen to. I tried to just listen to the mixture of sounds being played without hearing the vocals and when I was able to accomplish this for a few seconds I enjoyed what I was hearing. Gary Go has talent, I can hear it in the vocals and the rhythms, but it’s the sadness of the songs that took away any enjoyment I would have had from the songs. I think the album could have done with one or maybe two tracks about the break up and the feelings from it but beyond that it was overkill.