The sextet subverts both rock and dance formulas into largely instrumental music  Full text...

A hazy blend of nostalgia, evoking that period through a melange of action hero theme songs, early hip-hop (from 1979-82, in particular), and traces of 70s sunshine funk.  Full text...

It's music to be happy to that achieves this end without jumping up and down and tediously exhorting the listener to be happy.   Full text...

Guitar rock, bubblegum funk, Charlie Brown piano, harmonica, horns, loads of samples and Sugar Hill-style femme rapping from MC Ninja.  Full text...

For people who love music that hits them over the head with the sheer enjoyment of the human ability to rock.   Full text...

The best way to describe the music of The Go! Team is to say it involves combinations of unexpected sounds.  Full text...

Thunder, Lightning, Strike remains a party album like few things we'll hear this year.  Full text...

The Go! Team don't sound like cut-up artists though, as their work is driven by a never-ending speedboat of tempo that draws all their separate elements together in its wake.  Full text...

Bare description doesn't do justice to the sense of undiluted, obsessive music joy that fills each of Thunder, Lightning, Strike's tracks.  Full text...

Release, coaxing air guitarists, air horn players, air turntablists, and the all-mighty air drummers to take the stage of their own living rooms.  Full text...

Who wouldn't snap up another copy of Thunder, Lightning, Strike if it came with a free Go! Team skinny t-shirt  Full text...

The Go! Team sits somewhere between pretense-fueled concept band (a la Cut Copy) and bouncy party indie rock (think Kaiser Chiefs' vibe).  Full text...

Thunder Lightning Strike is like walking back into elementary school as an adult; details are missing, people are gone, but you still can't wipe the smile off your face.  Full text...