Rolling Blackouts
Rolling Blackouts is epic and bratty, subtle and sweet. From the two-minute opening Ninja led slammer of "T.O.R.N.A.D.O.", to the album's title track featuring Bethany Best Coast and Piano Magic’s Angèle David-Guillou, an all female feedback-swept white noise sand storm answer to "Some Velvet Morning", it's all restless and relentless energy. Bethany also lends vocals to "Buy Nothing Day," a hyper girls-in-the-garage jangle, while Dominique Young Unique dominates the psych hip-hop call and response of "Voice Yr Choice" and goes tag team on the string-led space race of “Apollo Throwdown”. Satomi leads the way on “Secretary Song” evoking an asymmetrical Tokyo office with elevators opening on the beat, typing in time and phones ringing in rhythm. "The Running Range" is a fuzz-bass driven Morricone-esque gospel song recorded in a South London church and with "Ready To Go Steady" the Team deliver their first straight ahead love song, a nimble pocket rocket symphony voiced by Lispector. The Go! Team have upped their own ante, giving us a record that is by turns their most refined, most kick ass, most melodic and most effortlessly effusive record yet.
Brighton's the Go! Team show signs of evolution on album #3, as their stylistic range broadens ever so slightly.
With its banging beats, larger-than-life hooks, well-placed singing and rapping, and clever marriage of found and live instrumentation, Rolling Blackouts shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with The Go! Team, arguably the world’s finest purveyor of multi-culti cheerleader-pop. Following a bit of a sophomore stumble…
After a four year interim, The Go! Team signals their much-awaited return to the long player format with, appropriately, a hilarious block of tape hiss—storming out of the gate with their joyously cacophonous lead single "T.O.R.N.A.D.O." (If there has ever been a perfect marriage between track and track title, this would be it).
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