God's Eye - Love's a Bargain (1990, 20/20)

Last year you came for God's Eye's "Back Again" 45, not realizing it was actually dessert for their main course, Love's a Bargain.  Not necessarily in league with the likes of other Beantown combos, Buffalo Tom or The Lemonhead's G/E do conjure the overarching modus operandi of the John Strohm/Freda Love fronted post-Blake Babies combo, Antenna.  This is to say, while God's Eye weren't innovators they were still passable. The aforementioned single "Back Again" is for better or worse the centerpiece of ...Bargain, wielding a big, juicy colossal hook - but was this nugget so potent that the trio in question weren't able to transcend it?  As for the album writ large, I might have to offer a reluctant "yes," yet it's still worth a few rotations. Merely one ep followed ...Bargain so we can only wonder if a hypothetical sophomore God's Eye album would have yielded the sort of knock-out punch suggested by "Back Again."

01. Rapunzel 

02. Back Again

03. Overground

04. Sea Chantey

05. Liberty

06. All Adds Up

07. Bright

08. Trial Size Hearts

09. Good Years

10. For Example

11. What's Love Worth

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