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| [ The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike ] |
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| LABEL: Memphis Industries GRAbbER: EAC |
| STYLE: Indie ENCOdER: LAME |
| RdATE: Aug/03/2004 QUALiTY: VBRkbps/44,1kHz |
| STREET: Sep/06/2004 SoNGS: 11 |
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| - R E L E A S E i N F O - |
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| Lodged somewhere in the previously undiscovered zone where Sonic |
| Youth meets the Jackson 5. |
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| "The Go! Team's Avalanches on purple hearts pop herald the |
| emergence of a major new talent" Jockey Slut |
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| "The sampledelic Go! Team sound like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs doing |
| Double Dutch" Q |
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| Review: |
| the go! team - thunder lightning strike |
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| at last its here. after the release of 2 rip roaring genre busting |
| singles we get the album from the mysterious go! team. anyone who |
| has heard last years 'junior kickstart' will know that to describe |
| the sound here is not easy. sonic youth guitars, 60's theme tunes, |
| happy horns, harmonica solo's and a school yard innocence is thrown |
| together through the lowest quality production possible all in 2.5 |
| minutes of chaos - and that's just the one track ! naturally the |
| folks behind this creation decided that if it aint broke .. dont |
| fix it. so the album has many more tracks of the same funk. with |
| some subtle left hand turns en route throughout. |
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| kicking things off in a mad vibrant style is 'panther dash' an |
| instrumental that crying out for a dayglo 60's party to soundtrack, |
| its a whirlwind of a track with its 'everything but the kitchen |
| sink' groove (trumpets/harmonicas/guitars etc etc) leaving the |
| listener breathless and relieved when we hit the old school |
| blockparty groove of 'ladyflash' with its vocal loops (sampled from |
| an old school hip hop jams ?) and fun funk, scratches and electro |
| slammed up against the addictive female vocals of 'yeah yeah |
| yeah's. has someone been listening to old rock steady crew classics |
| recently ? next comes my fave track - 'feelgood by numbers', 2 |
| minutes of a wonderfully happy clappy vibes piano riff, in which |
| you can see snoopy and woodstock rocking out, on top of which is |
| another harmonica solo adding a degree of melancholy, which is no |
| bad thing considering the overall mood of the album is party party |
| party, that is, until the parents return from the school pta |
| meeting. |
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| other highlights include the recorder solo in 'get it together' ( |
| the recorder ! ferrchrissakes .. i hate that instrument .. but in |
| this setting they rock ..), the scratched up extras at the end of |
| the track, showing the gang know how to dip their collective toes |
| into the old 60's tv theme tune cliches as well as knowing all |
| about the modern world of cut-n-paste. somebody is far too talented |
| methinks. there is a plan, a schemer behind this album, or just a |
| sonic prankster ? |
| |
| ahh .. who cares .. just get 'bottle rocket' on loop and i |
| challenge you to stop the smiles from breaking out, featuring |
| another female rap that betty boo would be proud of, set to more |
| mad splattering of horns, clatterfunk drums, and harmonica solos - |
| hurray! |
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| i should also tell you about 'friendship update', and 'huddle |
| formation' where the sonic ingredients are the same as the rest of |
| the album, girls shout happy phrases, horns are blasted and guitars |
| are ripped up, as is the school rule book, making it sound like the |
| beginning of the summer holidays has started and the carefree world |
| is all theirs, lucky monkeys. and then not forgetting the closer |
| 'everyones a vip to someone' which finishes things off in the most |
| wonderful rosy warm glow, orchestrated strings, 'midnight |
| cowboy'-esque moodswing fashion. wonderful stuff. |
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| to summarise, there is no-one else that sounds like the go! team. |
| there is no other album like this album. a genuinely perfect 35 |
| minutes in all its phil spector, wall of sound, sunshine soundtrack |
| glory. |
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| 01. Panther Dash 02:46 |
| 02. Ladyflash 04:10 |
| 03. Feelgood By Numbers 01:58 |
| 04. The Power Is On 03:14 |
| 05. Get It Together 03:25 |
| 06. Junior Kickstart 03:35 |
| 07. Air Raid GTR 00:38 |
| 08. Bottle Rocket 03:43 |
| 09. Friendship Update 04:00 |
| 10. Huddle Formation 03:12 |
| 11. Everyone's A V.I.P. To Someone 04:58 |
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| 35:39 min |
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