The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
And now for something completely different ... so what do you get when you combine breakbeats, funk, 70s style cop show soundtracky music, cheerleaderish raps, high school band instruments (mainly choruses of horns), among other great ideas to mash together?
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike: A
I guess sometimes you get what you wish for. I was looking for something really different and fun. This album fits the bill and then some. It has so many great elements to it, and it's really not about single songs ... this album is a great one to listen through, and at an economical 40 or so minutes (highly doable), audio fatigue is not really an issue ... and the neat thing is that most tracks are about 3 or so minutes long (or less), so the good ideas don't turn into a repetitive bludgeoning
I had picked up a few singles from the Go! Team over the past couple of years ... and have always liked their near instrumental mash ups of all these different musical elements. So, when I had seen them actually perform live on MBE ... I was like, man, if this is the music of their new album, damn ... it's really cool
And, yes, this album turned out to be really quite a fun listen ... and I mean, this is not something that I would typically single out as something that I would imagine that I would really dig. But I do ... it works really well as background music to things like exercising, driving, even passing time at work ... it's just very upbeat, catchy stuff ... but yet, really hard to classify as being "like or similar to" a single genre.
Just a whole lotta interesting sounds, rhythms, hooks, beats ... truly a unique listen, something I would highly recommend everyone take at least a listen to. Highly addictive stuff.