Follow The Sound - The Go! Team

Bit of a break, but this time I'll pick an album that always seems to affect me on a spiritual level. By that I mean one that always makes me feel something in my very depths, it moves and shakes me, and there are a lot of different emotions that flare up when listening to this album. The album would be this:


1. Panther Dash (2:50)
2. Ladyflash (4:16)
3. Feelgood By Numbers (1:56)
4. The Power Is On (3:14)
5. Get It Together (3:28)
6. We Just Won't Be Defeated (2:45)
7. Junior Kickstart (3:32)
8. Air Raid GTR (0:39)
9. Bottle Rocket (3:32)
10. Friendship Update (4:00)
11. Hold Yr Terror Close (2:18)
12. Huddle Formation (3:11)
13. Everyone's A V.I.P. To Someone (5:08)


Yes, the band was an indie band of the month at one point, but don't hold that against them. So were Andrew WK and Scanners, and they are still awesome, while stock indie rock shit like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! float to the bottom where they belong.

The difference between this album and other "indie rock" albums, is that this does not confine itself to that increasingly stagnant and boring genre. The songs do not follow a strict genre guideline, yet remain perfectly accessible and an easy listen. Every song sounds totally different, with raucous drumming (I love the drum sounds on this album), explosive horns, chanting, record scratches, and about anything you can think of. The songs are the type that rockers can see themselves rock out to, or even dance (or skank, if you're feeling nutty) to. The weird part is that, the lyrics are rather sparse, there's no questioning that the vocals are not the attraction here (even though they sound phenomenal), which is usually what every 'serious' music listener focuses on (hence so many idiots thinking there hasn't been an instrumental since the fucking 60s), making me question why the music elite even bothered with this album at all.

What's real special is how the record makes you feel. This is one of the few records I own that stabs at my core, the way the instruments mesh together to form coherent song structures, the music is not complex at all, yet is able to make me feel such strange emotions while listening to it. In a perfect world, 'Ladyflash' would have been on the radio, 'Bottle Rocket' would have been on 120 Minutes, and 'Everyone's A V.I.P. To Someone' (this song is so beautiful) would have been playing in serious dramatic movies.

This album captures what makes us listen to music in the first place. It has the magic, the soul, and the passion of the best music has to offer, and is easily one of the best albums of this decade, if not of all time.

If you disagree with that, then I feel sorry for you, I really do. Few albums can make me feel this way, and I hope it would for you too. This is an album that just makes you feel great to be alive.