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June 19, 2007

New Go! Team Video - "Grip Like A Vice"

On first listen of the ladies-baiting lead single from recent Sub Pop signees the Go! Team, we heard wild sonics and '80s cadences and really didn't see this vid coming. The technicolor troupe deletes the technicolor, instead offering something black, white, and ostensibly militant and political: check the air raid sirens, allusions to a past time of instrusive cops (working those old-school uniforms), power-to-the-people hands and fists, and some disturbingly white-paper-bagged shotgun/guitarists. And the likeness to former Black Panther Party National Secretary Of Communications Kathleen Neal Cleaver is too much to miss. Our college profs would be proud.

Different kind of a Party-starter from the Team. Their latest, Proof Of Youth, is out 9/11 on Sub Pop. Tracklist after the jump.

01 "Grip Like A Vice"
02 "Doing It Right"
03 "My World"
04 "Titanic Vandalism"
05 "Fake ID"
06 "Universal Speech"
07 "Keys to the City"
08 "The Wrath of Marcie"
09 "I Never Needed It Now So Much"
10 "Flashlight Fight"
11 "Patricia's Moving Picture"

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6 Comments

This band must have the smallest selection of songs ever! Already this song feels 15 years old. Come on.. leak another song, will ya!

Posted by: elk at 06/19/07 1:13 PM | Reply
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This vid reminds me of Banksy's graffiti work.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm

Posted by: Ju Bean at 06/19/07 1:41 PM | Reply
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Did they pick that release date deliberately?

Posted by: Cal N. Derr at 06/19/07 4:12 PM | Reply
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I love the song, but a "different kind of party starter"? It sounds pretty much like the Go Team! I know and love.

Posted by: Deano at 06/19/07 7:41 PM | Reply
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This song is really awesome, and I think the video is good and highly appropriate. That's what I think.

Posted by: Zayin_451 at 06/20/07 12:11 AM | Reply
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I really like this new sound from Go! Team. I really didnt like the first album, but this is good stuff.

I also heard they are collaborating with the kids from Rappers Delight Club. That should be some fun music to listen to.

Posted by: Jonny Q at 06/20/07 4:14 AM | Reply
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