01 February 2011
Seven years on from The Go! Team’s debut Thunder, Lightening, Strike, the sextet have managed to keep their sparkling pop innocence and party starting operatics intact with their third offering,Rolling Blackouts.
Kings of surprising commercial breakthroughs, The Go! Team’s latest offering holds a plethora of genres that chop and change quicker than a hypercolour t-shirt. Opening track and single, T.O.R.N.A.D.O is the UK’s answer to TV Rock’s Bimbo Nation; spelling in style and mixing indie, jazz, funk and a whole lotta bubblegum, this track is slightly off-tune but addictive.
Rolling Blackouts is full of childhood nostalgia, from the cartoon superhero theme music in Back Like 8 Track to what could very well be a 10-year-old's recorded piano lesson in the entirely instrumentalLazy Poltergeist. This is certainly not to discredit them, in fact, they could be onto something here. Indie kids of late are reverting back to childhood fixations where primary school/colours were the shit.
Last year’s single release Buy Nothing Day which features vocals byBest Coast’s Bethany Cosentino, is the best example of what the Brits have tried to achieve on the album. Ninja’s high-energy raps frenzy over Cosentino’s melody in quintessential Go! Team style; however, the sound is almost a carbon copy of their sophomore record, Proof Of Youth, in that it sounds a little too safe.
Rolling Blackouts leaves you feeling slightly torn. Yes, they stayed true to their original sound, possibly to quash any ‘I like your old stuff better than your new stuff’ sentiment from critics, but unfortunately the flip side is that to some, the album will come across as a retread. Safer than home base.
Rolling Blackouts is out February 4 through Shock Records.
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