RecCenter | The Go! Team

A six-piece from Brighton, England, The Go! Team and their brilliant, critically-lauded debut album, Thunder, Lightning, Strike, lit 2005 a-fire with a fast and furious mix of ‘60s girl groups, ‘70s car chase TV themes, ‘80s lady MCs, ‘90s guitar squalor, and an incendiary live show. Nominated for the UK’s prestigious Mercury Prize, Thunder, Lightning, Strike landed on 2005 year-end lists in Rolling Stone, Blender and Spin, with Time Magazine calling it one of “5 CDs You Should Not Miss” in early 2006. The Go! Team's subsequent American tours included incredible performances at Coachella and Lollapalooza, and opening for the likes of The Flaming Lips and Sonic Youth. And, we at Sub Pop are exceedingly proud to be releasing the new Go! Team album, Proof of Youth, here in the US on Sept. 11.

Here’s the deal: as an early bird-style special, we are offering $2 off the regular price of Proof of Youth (and that regular price through your pals here at subpop.com is already a steal at $14), making it only $12 all the way through the album’s release date of Sept. 11. We will also, of course, throw in Go! Team stickers and buttons. And it’s available on CD as well as LP, so that’s good news for everyone!

The first pressing of Proof of Youth on CD will include a BONUS DISC with four extra tracks! On This bonus disc: "Milk Crisis," "Phantom Broadcast," "A Version of Myself," and "Grip Like a Vice (Black Affair Remix)" - all of which are B-Sides from new UK singles (available here). And when this first pressing of the CD is gone, this bonus disc will be gone. As with so many things, your snoozing is your losing.

Whereas Thunder, Lightning, Strike was sample-heavy, Proof of Youth was recorded by all six Go! Team members, and produced by The Go! Team and Gareth Parton, resulting in a wider sound that is still unmistakably their own. The album is another treble-heavy adventure in audio, bombing melodies into the stone-age with its needle-in-the-red, anti-production approach and lurching from bubblegum pop to white noise in a heartbeat. And this time, it’s not just the band — they’ve invited some of their friends to the party, including hip-hop luminary Chuck D of Public Enemy, the original Double Dutch Divas, Maryland’s pint-sized Rapper’s Delight Club, Marina from Bonde Do Role, Amsterdam’s Solex, and Washington, DC’s Frederick Douglas All Star Cheer Team. Your 2007 and 2008 is about to be a whole lot more fun.