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Album Review: The Go! Team -- The Scene Between

James d'Apice
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"This is another step on The Go! Team’s engaging, endearing, occasionally baffling journey."

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This is another step on The Go! Team’s engaging, endearing, occasionally baffling journey.

Ian Parton’s collective came to prominence in the mid-naughties with a crunchy, breakbeat, cheerleader-chant sound. The Scene Between is a step away from funk towards pop. What D’You Say? even has a sweet “oo-woo-oo” to prove the point. Her Last Wave could have been co-written by Stephen Malkmus! Gaffa Tape Bikini is a 43-second echo of the buzzy past. With this album, the competence and immediacy remains but in jettisoning the hip hop backbone, it fails to reach previous stellar heights.