The Go! Team - Semicircle

The Guardian 80

(Memphis Industries)

Brighton’s Go! Team, a shape-shifting beast ever since 2004 debut Thunder, Lightning, Strike– a punked-up hybrid of Saint Etienne’s indie dance and the Avalanches’ hip-hop sampledelia – listed in the direction of wistful indie on 2015’s The Scene Between. But 2018, sonic architect Ian Parton decided, needed a Berocca-style boost, a psychedelic marching band to blast away global gloom. The fightback kicks off with Mayday’s insistent morse beeps, swaggering soul and sweetly strident vocals, gathering force through Hey!’s fusillade of cries and fat brass riffs and She’s Got Guns’s galvanising old-school rap from original frontwoman Ninja. The Go! Team’s Semicircle may not be unbroken, but they’re definitely coming back around hard.