The Go! Team - Proof of Youth
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Artist: The Go! TeamEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Sub Pop
Soundtracks:
- Grip Like A Vice
- Doing It Right
- My World
- Titanic Vandalism
- Fake ID
- Universal Speech
- Keys To The City
- Wrath Of Marcie, The
- I Never Needed It Now So Much
- Flashlight Fight
- Patricia's Moving Picture
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Free Music Review: WHAT MORE "PROOF" DOES ONE NEED?!?!
Hit: 4 Stars
WOW....a sophmore effort in this day and age that's as good as the debut....AMAZING! Well, it shouldn't be that amazing with this energetic young band from Brighton, England. Their unique sound and style should carve them out a carrer filled with incredible albums and singles. It's not easy to pin down the sound of The Go! Team, they're one of the biggest mixed bags that popular music has seen in a long time. But one thing that can be said is that they encompass true spirit and pleasure, trite, but I don't know how else to word it.
The bands' American debut "Thunder, Lightning, Strike" knocked me out apon first listen in October of '05. Here was a dizzying combination of urban funk meets '70s T.V. show theme songs meets hip hop meets folk music meets noise pop meets Sesame Street! The bands' songs relate to getting down on a dance floor as much as they do social conciousness glossed over with the same child like innocence as learning your ABCs with Bert and Ernie. CAN YOU DIG IT? Long winded, yes, but listening to The Go! Team will have you pondering such notions or just asking yourself, "why does this band make me feel so happy?" And that is desperately needed nowadays, wouldn't you agree?
If you enjoyed the first album, then you'll love this one as well. A large second dose of that same happy sensation you felt when you first heard them (for me, "Ladyflash" on the radio driving home one night from work...ahem...WHO IS THIS?!). The formula isn't tampered with in the slightest. Track 8, "The Wrath Of Marcie" has got to be the best song they have released thus so far! Here the "catchy chorus" and "melodic hook" factor are SO overtly apparent the entire song boils right over into delusional sugar-coated insanity! Track 2, "Doing It Right" has been recieving the most airplay and conjures up those same images of inner city black girls competing in double dutch jump rope tournaments. There is a unique '60s Motown/Phil Spector girl group feel to this one as well, begging for you to join in on the fun when you hear those infectious hand claps and shouts of "DO IT! DO IT! ALL RIGHT!" There are two instrumentals featured, the melancholy "My World" that showcases a simple combination of acoustic guitar and synthesizer and the closing track, "Patricia's Moving Picture." Both glissen like late '60s sunshine pop, evoking tears and memories of loved ones or happy times in life. "Titanic Vandalism" features the band nailing down a horn laden groove that's so funky it'll put your spine out of place while "Keys To The City" is quite noisy. You'll find those sweet melodic loops beneath the songs' surface though (headphones will help). "Flashlight Fight" is harder edged featuring Public Enemys' Chuck D and "Grip Like A Vice" has Ninja bragging she's the "greatest female rapper you'll ever see." I seriously doubt that statement, but oh well.
All bands claim musical influences, that's common. However for a band to take a dozen or so different musical gendres and meld them into a completely unique and irresistable package, is a challenge and a most difficult undertaking for any band. The proof here, however, is that The Go! Team seem to be "doing it right."
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Is it possible to sound like you're having more fun than the Go! Team? Probably not, going on Proof of Youth, the second album from Brighton, England's brightest pop experimentalists. As on its predecessor, 2004's Thunder, Lightning, Strike, the eleven songs on Proof of Youth burst out your speakers like tangy pop bubblegum, but on closer inspection suggest a broader, braver web of influences; many bands can remind you of the chirpy soul singalongs of the Jackson 5, the metallic guitar clang of Sonic Youth, or the cut-and-paste sonic collages of Public Enemy's Bomb Squad, but only one can do it in a single song. "Grip Like a Vice" and "Titanic Vandalism" prove the Go! Team template is present and correct, joyful melanges of car-chase horns, double dutch vocals, melodic guitar, and crowd-hyping rapping from MC/cheerleader Ninja. But there's more here than formula. "My World" is a simple, pretty interlude of acoustic guitar, shaker, and synthesiser straight from some Look Around You-style 1980s science show, "I Never Needed It Now So Much" is a na?ve pop song featuring vocals from Solex, and the glorious "Flashlight Fight" is a Public Enemy pastiche that actually features Chuck D. Skill. --Louis PattisonEngland's Go! Team play a fast and furious mix of 60s girl groups, 70s car chase TV themes, 80s lady MCs, and 90s guitar squalor. Their 2005 debut, "Thunder, Lightning, Strike" was critically lauded for its cheerleader anthems, syrupy string samples, and mad-as-a-hatter horn arrangements. This release bombs melodies into the stone age with its needle-in-the-red anti-production approach. It lurches from bubblegum pop to white noise in a heartbeat. Contributors include Chuck D, the original Double Dutch Divas, Rapper's Delight Club, Marina from Bonde Do Role, Solex, and Washington, DC's Frederick Douglas All Star Cheer Team.
Japanese Enhanced pressing of the 2007 album from the British Dance outfit led by Ian Parton features four non-album tracks ('Milk Crisis', 'Willow's Song', 'A Version Of Myself' and 'Bull In The Heather) plus two enhanced videos ('Grip Like A Vice' and 'Doing It Right'). The Go! Team create a unique and infectious sound blending samples with Hip Hop beats, live instrumentation and vocals. 18 tracks including the singles 'Grip Like A Vice' and 'Doing It Right'. .Avex.
2007 Japanese Edition of the Second Album from the Nu Dance Group that features Four Songs that Don't Appear on the Us Equivalent.
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