Everybody Knows It's Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight

The Go Find's third record is a more straightforward pop record than their previous works. While those two albums were dreamier and relied more on atmosphere and electronics, Everybody Know's It's Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight is very much a guitar record that, while quiet at heart, has plenty of punchy hooks and a direct emotional appeal. The group's leader Dieter Sermeus, has seemingly given up on his Radiohead albums and spent time studying up on his Prefab Sprout and 70's soft rock albums, because while the sound is modern, there is a backward-looking feel that comes through in the vocals and the songwriting. His singing and the way it is recorded wouldn't sound out of place wedged between the laid-back crooners in America and Bread; some of the guitar chords he, Nico Jacobs and Tim Coenen throw in now and then are "jazzy" enough for Steely Dan. Or Prefab Sprout. The mix of sophistication in the arrangements, quiet desperation in the lyrics, and slickness of sound is very mid-'80s