The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences Part One (2021) [Official Digital Download]

Midway through a podcast interview late last year, the Go! Team mastermind Ian Parton raised a tantalizing counterfactual. What if the groundswell around the collage-pop project’s brilliant debut album, 2004’s Thunder, Lightning, Strike, had been a bit less deafening? “It happened too quickly,” Parton said of the Go! Team’s initial flush of success. Noting that there will be a “a certain contingent” for whom the UK six-piece will always be associated with the era of mp3 blogs and Iraq War protests, he added, “I prefer to be a slow-burn band.”

Hell, I’ll admit it: It’s not easy for me to separate the Go! Team from fond memories of listening to their debut as a newbie critic for this website (thankfully, my Muppet-themed review wasn’t the one we ran), or from tales of neighborhood kids joining the band onstage during the 2005 incarnation of what is now Pitchfork Music Festival. But Parton may have belatedly gotten his wish, as the Go! Team’s next several solid-to-great albums generally received more muted praise, leaving room for listeners to find the group at their own pace. Whether crossing paths with Public Enemy or Best Coast, hunkering down as a solo act or getting the band back together, the Go! Team demonstrated a remarkably consistent vision. Their sixth album, Get Up Sequences Part One, completed as Parton was battling the debilitating auditory effects of Ménière’s disease, is another intermittently thrilling block party from a utopia where time and genre collapse.

TRACKLIST

01. The Go! Team - Let the Seasons Work
02. The Go! Team - Cookie Scene
03. The Go! Team - A Memo for Maceo
04. The Go! Team - We Do It But Never Know Why
05. The Go! Team - Freedom Now
06. The Go! Team - Pow
07. The Go! Team - I Loved You Better
08. The Go! Team - A Bee Without Its Sting
09. The Go! Team - Tame the Great Plains
10. The Go! Team - World Remember Me Now



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