Description

Lodged somewhere in the previously undiscovered zone where Sonic Youth meets The Jackson 5, The Go! Teams Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike kicked out the jams and then spread it on crumpets for tea. The Go! Team is a 50/50 boy multinational girl boy split: band leader Ian Parton on electric guitar, harmonica and drums, Sam Dook on electric guitar, banjo and drums Chi Fukami Taylor on drums, Silke Steidinger on drums, electric guitar, keys and melodica and Jamie Bell on bass, and dynamite mcing from pocket rocket Ninja. Thats right, theres four drummers – eat your heart out Adam and the Ants.

On record The Go! Team are the Uncle Bulgarias of pop music, making good use of things everyday folk leave behind. Throwing together electro, 70s cop show theme music, Bollywood soundtracks, cheerleading chants, old hip hop and noise guitar bands with a wide-eyed sense of possibility where everything crashes into everything else with a breathless, delighted, abandon. The Go! Team seem to be suffering from a collective brain-wrong that is gloriously, euphorically right. This special edition features two bonus tracks, “We Just Won’t Be Defeated” and “Hold Yr Terror Close”.