April 26, 2012 - Goldmine MagazineLaurie Biagini has released her third full-length, A Go-Go Girl in a Modern World , and it finds her covering much the same musical and lyrical ground as her first two releases: aural homages to sun-soaked days at the beach, jaunty, keyboard-based tunes, and a cornucopia of ‘60s-influenced numbers about go-go girls, secret agents and SUV’s. The clear highlight is the pretty, romantic ballad “An Innocent Love,” which sounds like it could have come straight off the soundtrack to a Sandra Dee movie. Biagini’s vocal delivery offers just the right amount of yearning on this tune, and her smooth background vocals are also quite fetching. Other goodies to be unearthed are the snappy “A Ride on the Train” (which pinches the main riff to “The Boy from New York City”) and the disc-closing “One Track Mind,” which has a slight Middle Eastern bent to it and features Biagini on lead guitar. On the other side of the coin, Biagini’s attempt at a secret agent-type number, “The Invisible Guy,” falls flat, with a decent melody buried by a morass of instruments in a murky mix. Oh, and many of these tunes cry out for a real drummer (rather than a drum machine), and a few miss the mark entirely. Still, Biagini is pretty good at what she does, and fans of ‘60s sunshine pop could do worse than to pick this disc up. Grade: B-
John Borack
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