Album Review: Major Leagues - Good Love

Brisbane daydreamer pop outfit Major Leagues' debut album Good Love paints a lovely picture of a sunset drive around the coast with its simple melodies and reverb-soaked vocals. Yet after a while, it can get a little monotonous; the first half of the album can fade into the background if you’re not careful.

The pace does pick up with songs like Nono Jojo and Holiday with the highly distorted, low-fi sound fans have come to love. They maintain their light guitar plucks and surfy vibes from previous EPs and don't differ far from what they know, and prove that they’re good at it too. 

The songwriting is sweet and simple — “If you wait / Good love is on the way”, even though repetitive choruses usually sound overworked and annoying. “Total bummer” is repeated four times each chorus in Mess Up, but in the case of Major Leagues, you find yourself singing them long after they've concluded.

Major Leagues' vocal harmonies, trance-like production, and relatable lyrics ("I want you right now / To be my friend and not pretend") provide a nice soundtrack to an endless summer of ups and downs full of love, loss and longing.