Album Review: The Go! Team -- Rolling Blackouts

LISTENING to The Go! Team’s Rolling Blackouts is like going to a fireworks display in the pouring rain – a brief flash of excitement before fizzling out into a damp squalor of despair.
The Brighton-based collective’s third outing does little to distant itself from its predecessors – the stunning Thunder, Lightning, Strike and the stop-start Proof of Youth – but fails to better them either.
It’s as if the sextet sets a goal to be as garish and wild as possible with each release, throwing an Arabian bazaar-full of samples, noises, beats, and screams into a defective blender.
Opener T.O.R.N.A.D.O is a headache inducing spelling lesson and it doesn’t get much better with the over-frenetic and off key The Running Range and schizophrenic hip-hop of Voice Yr Choice.
There are some exceptions, however. Buy Nothing Day is a cherished embrace with sickly sweet girl indie and the warmth emitting from the bubbly Ready To Go Steady is the perfect remedy for the headache T.O.R.N.A.D.O erupted earlier.
The Go! Team can learn from this. They are much more alluring outfit when they try to create simplistic pop rather than piling the entire buffet onto one plate.