‘Whammy O’ new from The Go! Team
THE GO! TEAM new single Whammy O
New album “Get Up Sequences Part Two” out 3 Feb 2023.
Listen / Watch the video HERE
UK 2023 Tour Announced – London show sold out, new date added.
Photo Credit David Richardson
Following on from the blown out, amped up first single Divebomb and The Star Feminine Band featuring Look Away, Look Away comes a comes Whammy O. Check out the video HERE.
Whammy O is call and response between flute and a floor tom, brickwall horn stabs and blaxploitation wacka wacka. It’s a collaboration with NYC rapper Nitty Scott who brings an abstract, cut up approach to the rhymes: “While you left the water running, we were reading poetry to lions and becoming”. It sounds like the Go Team but somehow more class of ’23.
Over their six albums The Go! Team have taken sonic day trips. But now on this, their seventh – they’ve bought a round-the-world ticket…. Benin, Japan, France, India, Texas and Detroit – all stops along the way. Wildly different voices from wildly different cultures side by side but all still sounding unmistakably Go! Team. Setting the course for a kaleidoscopic, cable access, channel hop.
Picking up from 2021’s “Get Up Sequences Part One”, Part Two continues the feeling of Technicolour overload. “A feeling that there is so much good shit out there that you are grabbing it all at the same time. The record is saying: “Look at this. Look at this”. When you listen to it I just want the saturation of the world to be turned up”. Simultaneously messy and tight, chaotic and coherent both albums have an obsession with the power of a bassline and a backbeat. “For me each successive Go! Team record just gets fucking groovier and for me grooviness is life”, Parton says.
It’s a journey spanning Cyclone Tracey wig-outs, chroma key sitar psychedelia, Casiotone anthems, spoken word melodrama and kalimba callouts. Brill building melodies lead into musical handbrake turns, four track into panoramic.
Eighteen years after their debut LP The Go! Team are still unlike anyone else and on “Get Up Sequences Part Two” they sound as fresh as a club soda….
Get Up Sequences Part Two is available to preorder on signed Bomtempi orange vinyl from Rough Trade HERE and on Columbo Yellow vinyl with signed art print direct from The Go! Team shop HERE and your favourite local indie store HERE.
The Go! Team will be on tour throughout the UK as below. Their London show has sold out so another date on 31 March has been announced. Tickets on sale now HERE.
3rd March, Cambridge, Junction
4th March, Southampton, Engine Rooms
5th March, Margate, Dreamland
9th March, Reading, Sub 89
10th March, Birmingham, The Mill
11th March, Newcastle, Boiler Shop
12th March, Bristol, The Fleece
16th March, Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
17th March, Sheffield, Leadmill
18th March, Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms
19th March, Glasgow, SWG3
25th March, Manchester, Gorilla
26h March, Leeds, Brudenell
30th March, London, Lafayette
31st March, London, Lafayette SOLD OUT
1st April, Brighton, Chalk