The Go! Team embrace the flute on their breezy new song “Cookie Scene,” featuring Detroit rapper IndigoYaj.
“Well, I’m feeling kinda funny ’cause life is like a game / Feeling like an enemy, but that’s Ok,” the song opens. “That’s just who I, that’s just who I am.”
Producer Ian Parton builds a funky, malleable groove filled with snare clicks, cabasa twists, booming bass, digital tom-toms, horn flourishes and spacey effects. But the arrangement is anchored by the lead flute hook of Sarah Hayes.
“The stripped back...
“Well, I’m feeling kinda funny ’cause life is like a game / Feeling like an enemy, but that’s Ok,” the song opens. “That’s just who I, that’s just who I am.”
Producer Ian Parton builds a funky, malleable groove filled with snare clicks, cabasa twists, booming bass, digital tom-toms, horn flourishes and spacey effects. But the arrangement is anchored by the lead flute hook of Sarah Hayes.
“The stripped back...
- 7/14/2020
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
The Go! Team have suggested that their third album may be their last. Rolling Blackouts, the follow-up to 2007's Proof Of Youth, was released earlier this week. Songwriter Ian Parton told BBC 6 Music: "We don't wanna do a Jay-z and say that and then three years later we'll be 'Hey again'. But it may well be, actually. It may well be the last Go! Team record. It might be the last year we're touring, certainly, the band." He added of their latest release: "It's definitely the most eclectic record we've done, I'd say. It's (more)...
- 2/2/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
With its banging beats, larger-than-life hooks, well-placed singing and rapping, and clever marriage of found and live instrumentation, Rolling Blackouts shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with The Go! Team, arguably the world’s finest purveyor of multi-culti cheerleader-pop. Following a bit of a sophomore stumble with 2007’s Proof Of Youth—really, anything was going to be a letdown in the wake of the near-perfect Thunder, Lightning, Strike—the Brighton, England, outfit has returned to form with its formula. That concoction is probably best left unmolested, at least until leader Ian Parton stops spinning samples into gold. Things get off ...
- 2/1/2011
- avclub.com
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