THE NEW DEAL Gone Gone Gone (MapleMusic) Rating: NN
Rating: NN
Local live breakbeat trio the New Deal’s second studio album, Gone Gone Gone, takes their sound one step closer to pop, but in the process gets a few steps too close to lukewarm acid jazz funk. The title track rocks in a Cars kind of way, but most of the rest of the album is just too restrained to be useful for much more than a sleep aid. Using their flaccid cover of Donna Summers’s I Feel Love as the second song probably wasn’t a great choice it’s hard to maintain interest after sitting through that.