The Go! Team Know Something You Don’t

Three days straight, Grip Like A Vice has been the first thing I put on in the morning. The Go! Team build their songs like sound collages held together with rubber bands and sheer momentum—drum breaks that feel like they were recorded in a parking garage, brass stabs, MC Ninja’s voice riding the whole thing like she already won whatever contest you didn’t know was happening. There’s a particular kind of joy in music that doesn’t seem to need your buy-in. It just goes. I can’t dissect why this one has burrowed so deep right now. Doesn’t matter. It has.