Here We Go Love is a studio album by rock and ska band the Beat credited as the Beat Starring Dave Wakeling, released in the UK on 25 May 2018 and in the US on 15 June  2018.

Reception Greil Marcus wrote that "Wakeling still reaches for what he can’t quite grasp, and ends up with more than most people even want. There’s nothing here to match 'Save It for Later,' but a whole album of 'Tenderness' is nothing to apologize for. With 'The Love You Give' you hear the beat the group named itself for; 'If Killing Worked' ('It would have worked by now'), a dance of flow and release, gives a special pleasure as you wait for the horns you just know are coming in, almost right now."

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5 stars, with critic Mark Deming writing that the music "doesn't sound all that much like the Beat" as this lacks "the fierce attack" of the Beat's earliest work and sounds more like Wakeling's band General Public. In Glide Magazine, Doug Collette scored this album a 7 out of 10, writing that "the chirpy delivery remains irresistible on tunes such as the title song even as it belies a somewhat jaundiced view of the world" and praising Wakeling's vocals. Writing for PunkNews, Julie River gave Here We Go Love 3 out of 5 stars and she wrote that "it was probably because of the fact that my expectations were so low that I enjoyed the album as much as I did" and continued that the song quality varies across the album. Aaron Badgley of Spill Magazine rated this work an 8 out of 10, noting the mix of rock and ska elements in the music, as well as the diverse lyrical themes, summing up that it is "a great album, and it is wonderful to have Dave Wakeling and The English Beat back".

Gwen Ihnat of The A.V. Club scored Here We Go Love a C−, praising some tracks, but continuing that "the rest of the record lacks this much spark, with many tracks running together in a chirpy, insipid ska hodgepodge".

Track listing All songs written by Dave Wakeling, except where noted. "How Can You Stand There?" – 4:05 "The One and the Only" – 4:22 "Redemption Time" (Kiran Shahani, Rick Torres, and Wakeling) – 5:11 "If Killing Worked" – 4:57 "Here We Go Love" – 3:32 "Never Die" – 4:42 "The Love You Give" – 3:29 "You Really Oughtta Know" – 4:19 "You're Stuck" – 2:25 "Every Time You Told Me" (Shahani, Torres, and Wakeling) – 5:47 "Dem Call It Ska" (Wayne Lothian and Wakeling) – 3:48 "Drive Her Away" – 3:50 "Be There for You" – 6:59

Personnel

Musicians Roddy 'Radiation' Byers – electric guitar Tony Chin – electric guitar Andy Cox – garden shears Drew Erickson – organ, horn and string arrangement Antonee First Class – toasting Isaiah Gage – cello Rich Hinman – pedal steel guitar Raynier Jacildo – keyboards Native Wayne Jobson – electric guitar Jelani Jones – background vocals Nate Laguzza – drums, percussion Thomas Lea – viola Danny T. Levin – trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone, euphonium Nate Light – bass guitar Luis Maldonado – electric guitar David Moyer – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, piccolo, recorder, bass clarinet Durga McBroom – background vocals Perry Morris – percussion Everett Morton – congas Jared Palazzollo – guitar Michael Railton – piano, organ, accordion, synthesizers Roger Rivas – organ Jon Sosin – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Deborah Troiano – background vocals Dave Wakeling – electric guitar, lead vocals Eli Wakeling – background vocals Josef Wakeling – background vocals Kevin Williams – background vocals Leah Zeger – violin

Technical personnel Jay Baumgardner – mixing Hunt Emerson – artwork Kyle Hoffmann – audio engineering, production Ted Jensen – audio mastering

Charts Chart (2018) Peakposition

See also 2018 in American music 2018 in British music List of 2018 albums List of longest gaps between studio albums

References

External links

The Beat set on World Cafe