Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 26. October 3 1977

Moving Along: Renee Gayer

Moving Along: Renee Gayer

Renee Gayer is a fine singer in the soul shrieking tradition, a blue-eyed Aussie Aretha. She can churn out the manic emotion demanded by this sort of music, and is probably dynamite on stage. However, on this record something is sadly missing—the songs are insipid, the emotionalism seems forced and things are generally boring.

At this point I must confess to having no great love for this kind of music, so if you're into disco-funk don't take my word for it but check it out yourself. Premsumably there are people who love track after track of relentless wah-wah guitar, pounding drums, belching synthesisers, massed choirs of screeching backing vocalists and all the other paraphenalia. Renee sometimes gets lost in all the excitement, and one wonders why the producer didn't throw in the Red Army Ensemble while he was about it. He did get in some rather overpowering boings, beeps and blats, and generally didn't give poor old Renee a fair go,

She's probably quite a decent singer really and deserving better than the treatment she is given on this record. The overwhelming Question is: why bother churning out records like this at all? Soap opera sentiments and production line music, are hardly worth the vinyl it's pressed into.

—Andrew Delahunty