Wednesday Wadio: The Go! Team's 'Huddle Formation'

"Throwing together electro, 70’s cop show theme music, Bollywood soundtracks, cheerleading chants, old hip hop and noise guitar bands with a wide-eyed sense of possibility where everything crashes into everything else with a breathless, delighted, abandon. The Go! Team seem to be suffering from a collective brain-wrong that is gloriously, euphorically right." - Amazon.com

If you took the buzz and drone of early Sonic Youth, mixed it with the frantic drumming and splashy cymbals of the worst indie rock band you'd ever heard and then paid a group of double-dutching young girls 2 boxes of Mike and Ike's to sing backup vocals - You'd be closing in on the sound of England's The Go! Team.

I've had this album for over a year now, and it's finally been released in the USA. The reason it took so long is because of the mountain of samples they had to clear - I have noticed a few minor variations from the UK release but it still packs a wicked punch and is like nothing I've ever heard.

"Every tune surges, every chorus makes you feel like an Olympic contender. It’s been ten years since the excesses of Big Beat, but The Go! Team have harvested all of the fun elements of that culture (happy samples, clunky rhythms, hands perpetually in the air) and made it digestible again." - BBC Northern Ireland

The Go! crew is made up of an even split of men and women from a wide variety of nationalities, and the whole conglomerate is headed up by a teeny female MC named Ninja. They're playing at the Paradise on November 1st, and I encourage you to check them out by hitting ZAP on Radio Pye in the left hand column. What a unique, wonderful, fun band these guys are.