Go! Team colab with BestCoast; Best Coast colab withWeezer

Mon 18th Oct, 2010 in International News

Before Sleigh Bells mixed cheerleader vocals with guitars and before Die Antwoord introduced the world to a rapper called Ninja there was the Go! Team.

Three years on from the Proof of Youth record the band is finally set to return with a new album, Rolling Blackouts due out at the end of January.

Speaking to Pitchfork, the band’s founder Ian Parton described Rolling Blackouts lead track T.O.R.N.A.D.O. as “a seesaw of stabs, basically. It’s call-and-response, sort of brassed out. It’s like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, if you know the soundtrack to that.”

“It’s pretty tough, a bit more kind of straightforward than the usual Go! Team song. I’m not normally happy unless I have like 10 things going on, but this one was refreshingly stripped back and tough. I think the production’s a bit weightier than previous Go! Team output.”

The rest of the new record is said to feature a 20 piece community brass band, “BBC Radiophonic Workshop theme-tuney, interlude-type songs”, an African gospel choir and “psychedelic hip-hop”.

The guest stars on the album include underage MC Dominique Young Unique, Satomi Matsuzaki from Deerhoof and Bethany Cosentino from Best Coast. According to Parton, the Cosentino tracks were recorded in late ‘09, when “nobody had heard of her”.

Now even Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo is scrambling to work with the indie ‘it’ girl, telling triple j that he’s “getting together with the girl from Best Coast and we’re going to write a song. You never know where these songs are going to end up but it could be on the next Weezer record.”