English group formed in 2001 in Brighton, The Go! Team had their debut album - Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004) - critically acclaimed. With influences from indie rock, hip hop, garage rock, 70s funk, electro and action movie soundtracks, the band has been described as a mix of Sonic Youth and Jackson Five.
Ian Parton (guitar, harmonica, drums), Sam Dook (guitar, banjo, drums), Chi Fukami Taylor (drums, vocals), Kaori Tsuchida (vocals, guitar, keyboard, melodica), Jamie Bell (bass) and Ninja (rapper) /vocalist) were the members in the early years of the group.
After the good reception of the Thunder, Lightning, Strike, the band released the albums Proof of Youth (2007) and Rolling Blackouts (2011). Their fourth album, The Scene Between, came out in 2015. In 2017, The Go! Team released Semicircle. Entitled Get Up Sequences Part One, the sixth album arrived in 2021. The second part of that work, Get Up Sequences Part Two, was released in 2023.
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