Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The first and solo practitioners of cheerleader punk. The Go! Team’s Thunder, Lightning, Strike is an explosion of colour and energy that evokes images of high school sports meets, inner-city summer days and the liberty of youth. The six-piece’s maximalist sound, with its two drums, choral chants, air-raid siren guitars, record-scratching and strong overriding melodies made the album impossible to ignore upon release in 2004. Recorded in the basement of Ian Parton’s parent’s house, the album maintains its scratchy, DIY aesthetic despite its vastly ambitious scale. Get your 15 year anniversary edition on silver vinyl now
Debut album from this Brighton-based six-piece rolls early-80s action theme songs, vintage hip-hop, Saturday morning cartoons and cheerleading squads into one sick party record bursting with surly, overdriven guitars, triumphant trumpet lines, and battling drum assaults that seem to break through walls with the barreling force of a thousand Kool-Aid men.
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The U.S. version of the album has been altered only in the most minor, inconsequential ways.
Since its release one year ago, Thunder, Lightning, Strike, the debut album from the Go! Team, has thrived in US indie circles despite being available only...