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Feb 23, 2011If the Go! Team can make a record this much fun, with this much style and skill, with this many well-chosen collaborators, and with this many hit songs every couple years, by the time they are done we'll be voting them into the Brilliant Pop Hall of Fame.
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Alternative PressFeb 23, 2011This album is pure joy to listen to. [Mar 2011, p.96]
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Feb 1, 2011The Go! Team still has spirit, yes it does, and with Rolling Blackouts, it's given fans of ecstatic pop one more thing to cheer about.
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Jan 27, 2011Rolling Blackouts, is a breathless mix of scrappy guitars, girl-group harmonies, and funky horns. It might seem nostalgic if it didn't sound so now.
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Feb 17, 2011The Go! Team makes sure to reach for the stars and they're certainly poised to simply get more well-known from here.
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UncutFeb 8, 2011Rolling Blackouts is as invigorating as their debut. [Feb 2011, p.87]
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Feb 7, 2011A sample-heavy hodgepodge of indie rock, hip-hop, garage rock and mature instrumentals fills out the rest of this joyous album whose almost wistful title track near the end brings everything together in the most satisfying way.
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Feb 2, 2011The prominence of structure beams through and makes this more of a traditional offering than a novelty. Still unlike anything else, this is time well spent.
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Q MagazineFeb 2, 2011Lively third outing from Brighton collective. [Feb. 2011, p. 117]
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Feb 2, 2011It's mixed-up, mashed-up and flagrantly, unapologetically odd. It's everything we want The Go! Team to be. But with added extras.
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Jan 31, 2011Right at the end of what is officially the most depressing month of the year comes a shaft of unadulterated sunshine.
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Jan 27, 2011It works from top to bottom, to take songs from, and it fits the Go! Team canon with assumed confidence.
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Mar 10, 2011Rolling Blackouts features less of lady rapper Ninja's double-dutch rhymes and a wrecking-ball brass attack, a welcome evolution that shifts the focus towards songcraft and away from the squealing sheets of instrumentation.
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Feb 3, 2011Hopefully, Rolling Blackouts marks the moment in the Go! Team's career where the idea of moving forward becomes less of a literal concept and more an artistic one.
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Feb 7, 2011Rolling Blackouts doesn't move away from what the Go! Team is known for. Instead, this is a snapshot of a band both honing their skills and creating a fun piece of music.
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Feb 4, 2011Whether you felt the Go! Team took a step back with Proof of Youth or not, Rolling Blackouts as an album delivers on the band's premise more successfully thanks to this variety.
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Feb 1, 2011The naïve exuberance underpinning their mash-up of marching-band funk, jump-rope rap chants and indie-pop could feel forced by now, but their third disc is as cute and tunefully muscular as ever.
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Jan 27, 2011Their diverse third release occasionally finds new ways to induce grins.
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Jan 27, 2011The group often stretch their net too wide for their own good. Rolling Blackouts is more indecisive mixtape than flowing album.
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Feb 18, 2011Much like "T.O.R.N.A.D.O.," Rolling Blackouts is a natural disaster in musical form-a messy, lo-fi garbage bag full of genres and cultures, overflowing with left-field sonic trickery: corny turntable scratching, shit garage drums, twinkling glockenspiels, and enough spunky cheerleader bravado from frontgirl/rapper Ninja to start a whole squad.
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