"We are so, so, so happy to be back in Sweden...since this is where it all started. We did our very first show in this country seven years ago" says MC Ninja while waving hello to the festival crowd at Stockholm's most popular indie annual weekend, Popaganda. The band plays a "stunning blend of indie rock guitars, police show themes, hip-hop beats, and schoolyard chants built on samples" mixing songs from older releases with their current one, Rolling Blackouts (out on Memphis Industries in 2011).

"You have to wonder if Ian Parton ever regrets naming his recording project/collective the Go! Team, let alone affixing it with an exclamation point for guaranteed bonus exuberance. Few bands have gone to such great lengths to forge a connection between their name and their sound. Since its inception, the group has reconstructed sounds that are all about inspiring motion-- cheerlander chants, rollerskate jams, breakdance beats, cop-show chase themes, 90s mosh-pit rock-- into a brass-blasted wall of squall. But the side effect of constant movement is fatigue-- in this case, on the band itself, which charged through its 2007 sophomore release Proof of Youth with the same gusto heard on its dazzingly 2004 debut, Thunder, Lightning, Strike. Compounding the exhaustion on Proof of Youth is Parton's unwavering deference for high-pitch-frequency productions that sound like they're blaring out of an old Zenith, tenuously walking the line between ingratiating and just plain grating." Pitchfork

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