10 Bands From The 2000s You've Definitely Forgotten

If Junior Senior were addictive, then The Go! Team were great heroin. What would you even call their music? Thunderpop? Clamourrock? Whatever it is The Go! Team do, it’s infuriatingly phenomenal to the point of intoxication. This is what being young and energetic and in love in the middle of an endless summer sounds like.

It should be written into every countries constitution that all persons should be allowed the right to water, shelter, vote and the first album by The Go! Team. If done that countries national happiness rating would sky rocket.

From the sumptuous count off, to the preppy cheerleading shouts, the trumpets that just explode with energy like a muscular party popper, the frenetic ticking of the high hat, the biggest, baddest kick snare in all the land and some old-school hip hop beat production, everything about The Go! Team just makes you want to throw open your windows and yell out about how good they are to a world that needs to hear this.

It’s sensory overload, it’s a neon arabesque, a rhythmic tour de force that could be the soundtrack to the cartoons you loved way back when, a direct injection of adrenaline into your brain’s dopamine centre.

Don’t follow the rules kids, it’s more fun to just do whatever you want, The Go! Team’s back catalogue is sonic proof of that.