The Go! Team
Get Up Sequences Part 2
MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES
Songwriter Ian Parton’s giddily over-caffeinated The Go! Team has been busy since the top of the 2000s making gleeful indie pop meets hyper-marching-band soul, all with a smattering of funk—and why bust up a good thing?
The loud, bass-bin rattles of Get Up Sequences Part 2 sound like a party among old friends (emcee IndigoYaj, vocalists Rian Woods and Jessie Miller) and new (chanting Beninese singers from the Star Feminine Band). The madness starts for the Team when it mixes noise-rock R&B bangers such as “But We Keep on Trying” and aggressively angular carnival tunes like opener “Look Away, Look Away” with old-school shoegaze and synth pop for good measure, respectively, on tracks such as “Sock It to Me” and “Going Nowhere.”
If there’s anything that sets GUSP2 apart from Part 1, or anything within The Go! Team’s catalog, it can be found in the sweetly simmering balladry of “Getting to Know (All the Ways We’re Wrong for Each Other).” Sublime and gut-wrenchingly soulful in the hands of vocalists Miller and Woods, you nearly forget that the rest of the Team makes its bones with banging drums and sporty shouts.
