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Album Details

• Artist: The Go! Team
• Album: Thunder, Lightning, Strike
• Label: Memphis Industries
• Year of Release: 2004
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2005-04-28

God, does Thunder, Lightning, Strike sounds like shit. The audio quality of The Go! Team's debut album is complete crap, but before you run off, damn is it catchy. You can't help but reach for your headphone plug and make sure it is indeed in all the way. These cats make a cut and paste collage of music that sounds like it was recorded in a shaggy van with little more than a Casio keyboard and three boom-boxes. But damn if you don't find yourself nodding to pretty much every track here especially "Get It Together", one of my favorites on the album. The Go! Team takes some cues from Avalanches in the way that the music is cut and pasted into some pretty decent tracks with one exception, The Go! Team's music tends to sound a little less cut and pasted as The Avalanches. The only place that may not be true is the cool "Huddle Formation" where the Team ends up using what sounds like an old Afro-American sample (although it turns out that this is in fact a member singing these lyrics). The Team also uses old 80s TV theme songs as backgrounds for many of their songs with a bunch of live instrumentation overtop. Is The Go! Team a play on The A-Team? I don't know but it may as well be. A listen or two of Thunder, Lightning, Strike and you will be as hooked as I am on this album. You will forget that this album is recorded "lo-fi".

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