THE GO! TEAM – GRIP LIKE A VICE (MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES)
From their second, their first recorded as a band unit, Grip Like A Vice is the first single and continues in the vein of car chase siren music coupled with savvy pop rap vocals and big beats.
Over the past couple of years I have found myself very much FOR The Go! Team even when those around me have denied them as being little more than Brighton/London Beach chancers pressing all the right indie hipster buttons in order to score points in a most no-brain method/manner.
Personally for the redeeming qualities within The Go! Team are dynamics second to none in this current music climate thanks to chunky rhythms and a genuinely decent flow from Ninja on vocals that make the songs they nail impossible not to move to.
The one flow I would pitch at The Go! Team is how they appear to have struck their familiar slightly too early in their career which as a result often unfortunately makes a number of their songs, including the singles, sound somewhat samey and sadly lacking in adventure. In the past I have made the smart remark that the band resembles the rap of Vanilla, Jade And Ebony from the beginning of Ghost World which despite being bitchy I do feel does occasionally hit the nail on the head.
Fortunately the b-side cover of Sonic Youth’s Bull In The Heather does display a playful sense of adventure and fun in an exuberant manner. The result outcome is both faithful to the original and individual in its execution adding a new spirit of lust to the song when the effort could easily have turned nasty and been a disaster judging by the band’s previous failed efforts at pulling off a Sonic Youth sound.
Yay for effort.
Thesaurus moment: pounding.
The Go! Team
The Go! Team interview
Memphis Industries
From their second, their first recorded as a band unit, Grip Like A Vice is the first single and continues in the vein of car chase siren music coupled with savvy pop rap vocals and big beats.
Over the past couple of years I have found myself very much FOR The Go! Team even when those around me have denied them as being little more than Brighton/London Beach chancers pressing all the right indie hipster buttons in order to score points in a most no-brain method/manner.
Personally for the redeeming qualities within The Go! Team are dynamics second to none in this current music climate thanks to chunky rhythms and a genuinely decent flow from Ninja on vocals that make the songs they nail impossible not to move to.
The one flow I would pitch at The Go! Team is how they appear to have struck their familiar slightly too early in their career which as a result often unfortunately makes a number of their songs, including the singles, sound somewhat samey and sadly lacking in adventure. In the past I have made the smart remark that the band resembles the rap of Vanilla, Jade And Ebony from the beginning of Ghost World which despite being bitchy I do feel does occasionally hit the nail on the head.
Fortunately the b-side cover of Sonic Youth’s Bull In The Heather does display a playful sense of adventure and fun in an exuberant manner. The result outcome is both faithful to the original and individual in its execution adding a new spirit of lust to the song when the effort could easily have turned nasty and been a disaster judging by the band’s previous failed efforts at pulling off a Sonic Youth sound.
Yay for effort.
Thesaurus moment: pounding.
The Go! Team
The Go! Team interview
Memphis Industries
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