I’m nostalgic for the early 2000s, some years that I rank with some of the all time creative spurts, and you couldn’t find a much better album than 2004’s Thunder Lightning Strike by the Go Team!
Dropping a needle somewhere in those years, I can give you a whole bunch of artists from that time frame (Grandaddy, The Hives, Modest Mouse, Beck, The Rakes, Kimya Dawson, Neutral Milk Hotel, Daft Punk, Beck) and yet TGT! seems to mostly exist outside of them all.
The Go Team like so many bands with impressive debuts, continued (and continue) to make new albums. None of these particularly received bad reviews, like any band approaching Album number six, it’s more of a case of buzz fizzling out.
Get Up Sequences Part One seemingly more than any recent GT! Album recalls the style of Thunder Lighting Strike. Now LGT is a deep record. There’s probably 5 songs on that 13 track album that would really punch up any mix tape. GUSP1 won’t pull that average but it’s got it moments. “Pow” ranks up there as does “A Bee Without its Sting”- two songs that could hang with TLS.
But as a whole record, there’s really no complaints to be had. For example, closer “World Remember Now” doesn’t flow as effortlessly as the previous songs I mentioned, though I suspect it might be a favorite for other listeners.
Cleaner vocals replace the noisier experimental style of 2017’s Proof of Youth. Naively, one thinks that they could sneak one of these songs along Top 40 songs- a mixture of urban and rock sounds punctuated by the bands seemingly raison d’être- an anthemic cheerleader style sound.
If you somehow missed The Go Team in the past 17 years, here’s your jumping on point.
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