Close your eyes, and This Town sounds like one heck of a TV series.
Appropriately, for a series juxtaposing the 1980s music scene with broader social violence and disarray, This Town has a brilliant and punchy soundtrack.
This Town is hardly the first series to attempt to paper over its dramatic shortcomings with a bit of musical X factor.
While the music augments what is being shown on screen, This Town does little to enrich the music.