For Brighton Team-master Ian Parton, old strength-in-numbers ideals inspired the fifth Go! Team album. While 2015\u2019s The Scene Between <\/i>was a near-solo, song-based set, Semicircle <\/i>unites Team-players old and new, crackling with the communal joys of mob-handed melody, raucous rap and celebratory sound.<\/p>\n
If that seems a self-conscious step back to Parton\u2019s formative Team-work, it\u2019s one that sounds vibrantly alive rather than premeditated. Mayday arrives like a psych-soul school disco roaring merrily off the rails, all hearty horns, summer-of-love sitars and call-to-action chants. The sweet vocals and steel-pan drums of Chain Link Fence gleam brightly; Semicircle Song, meanwhile, summons the sound of marching bands on mushrooms to accompany The Detroit Youth Choir, whose buoyant front inspired the album.<\/p>\n
Wherever you turn, exuberance and invention are generously served. The Answer\u2019s No \u2013 Now What\u2019s The Question brims with girl group sass, flighty jazz flutes leaven Chico\u2019s Radical Decade, All The Way Live sets archival samples to body-popping beats, and established Go! Team firebrand Ninja issues volleying agit-rhymes on She\u2019s Got Guns. Dutch smart-pop voice Amber Arcades adds a freshly languid charm to Plans Are Like A Dream U Organise, while Getting Back Up provides a resilient send-off. As The Detroit Youth Choir break into cheers at the album\u2019s close, Parton\u2019s vision of a united-we-stand tonic for divisive times is warmly, winningly realised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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