Over their six albums The Go! Team haveâ¯taken sonic day trips to other lands - musically dipping into other cultures. ⯠But now on this, their seventh ⯠- they’ve bought a round-the-world ticket…. â¯Benin, Japan, France, India, Texas and Detroit - all stops along the way.⯠Wildly different voices from wildly different cultures side by side but all still sounding unmistakably Go! Team.⯠Setting the course for a kaleidoscopic, cable access,â¯channel hop.
On the vocal roll call there’sâ¯Star Feminine Band, an all-girl group from West Africa, the Indian Bollywood playback singer Neha Hatwar, Kokubo Chisato from J-Pop indie band Lucie Too, 19 year-old Detroit rapper IndigoYaj, Hilarie Bratset (ex-Apples in Stereo), Brooklyn rapper Nitty Scott, and a whole host of others, alongside Go! Team staple Ninja.â¯
“Maybe it's an anti-Brexit reflex,” says Parton. “A rejection of flag-waving and inward-facing.⯠Butâ¯this is no Coke ad, some Valium vision of joining hands on a hillside. The Go! Team has always been about knowing what’s happening but focusing on the good shit.⯠It’s about where you let your attention settle”.â¯
Picking up from 2021’s “Get Up Sequences Part One”, Part Two continues theâ¯feeling of Technicolour overload. “A feeling that there is so much good shit out there that you are grabbing it all at the same time. The record is saying: “Look at this. Look at this”. When you listen to it I just want the saturation of the world to be turned up”.⯠Simultaneously messy and tight, chaotic and coherentâ¯both albums have an obsession with the power of a bassline and a backbeat. "For me each successive Go! Team record just gets fucking groovier and for me grooviness is life”, Parton says.â¯
It’s a journey spanningâ¯Cyclone Tracey wig-outs, chroma key sitar psychedelia, Casiotone anthems, spoken word melodrama and kalimba callouts.⯠Brill building melodies lead into musical handbrake turns,â¯four track into panoramic. ⯠â¯
Eighteen years after their debut LP The Go! Team are still unlike anyone else and on "Get Up Sequences Part Two" they sound as fresh as a club soda….â¯