The Go! Team’s fourth album is a recalibration and a return to the band’s first album Thunder, Lightning, Strike, when Ian Parton was the sole creative member of the band, constructing polychromatic pop, indie-lo-fi and singalong cheerleader-style choruses before bringing in a live band to make it a reality.
The Scene Between returns to that first album’s bockety thrill, a sense-filled collision between music styles that has become The Go! Team’s inimitable style.
In place of the voice of long-time voices of the band Ninja, Kaori Tsuchida and Chi Fukami Taylor; who have moved on in their lives and in music, are a whole coterie of new, unknown ones like London Africa Gospel Choir, Glockabelle (France), Emily Reo (USA), Samira Winter (Brazil), Atom (China), Casey Sowa (USA), Doreen Kirchner (US), and more from around the world.
Ian Parton employed four rules before in its making:
1) melody would guide the song
2) samples would be treated as an instrument rather than a basis for the song
3) the production would vary across the song like flipping the dial on a radio
4) the singers must all be people he’d never previously heard of.
The result is a recognisable album by The Go! Team but with fresh sounds and a renewed focus on the voice. Listen to the first Irish stream of the album below. It’s released on March 27th on Memphis Industries.
If you’d like to win a signed vinyl copy of the album out on that date then leave a comment below with your favourite Go! Team song or experience.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Went to see the Go Team in the Black Box in Galway back in 2011. Bit of a trek from Dublinia but the gig was electric.
The Scene Between! Love it!
Bottle Rocket!
Anything off Thunder, Lightning, Strike, but especially Panther Dash. That harmonica solo…
Went to see them on 21Nov 2007 in the POD was so soo excited, kinda saw myself as Ninja dance double ! I was up the front giving it loads when I twisted something in my back but I
kept on dancing until the end but I was in sooo much pain, I could barely walk , I was too embarrassed to tell my husband but luckily I had a tube of Voltarol at home Saw them next at Electric Picnic, had a Sunday pass & ran from Entrance to front of stage in ‘record time! .Fav song Love love em all.
My favourite experience was their show in Paris back in 2011. So much energy! Awesome!
Ladyflash!
Favourite xperience of The Go! Team was in Tripod in November ’07 – up in the front row dancing for the duration of an absolute belter of a live show from Ninja & Co! If that wasn’t good enough, they had Super Extra Bonus Party supporting them. One of my favourite gigs ever.
Favorite Go! Team experience: seeing them live. Just so much fun.
I saw them at the TLA in Philly in 2011. Super small crowd, incredibly magical night. I danced my face off. I’ve been a big fan ever since.
So good.
Saw them at Electric Picnic in 2011. Absolutely fantastic performance, they were so full of energy and the crowd were great. Ninja seemed to really enjoy it too, she kept saying to the crowd how they were so grateful we came to see them out of all the other bands who were playing at that moment.
Feeling blue? Stick on The Go! Team, power up. Best feels evar!
Huddle Formation
The 2011 EP gig was incredible, it was like the band and the crowd were a group of play school kids that found the box of musical toys and were just making a racket and absolutely loving it.
Ladyflash!
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