The Go! Team release charged new song "Blowtorch" -- listen — consequenceofsound.net

The Go! Team has delivered a second taste of its forthcoming studio album The Scene Between. Following the record’s title track, the UK indie pop outfit has released the propellant “Blowtorch”. The song is a spirited representation of frontman Ian Parton’s determination that “samples would be treated as an instrument rather than a basis for the song” while putting the album together. “I wrote the song just on an acoustic,” Parton says in a press release, “but when it came to the recording I had the idea of building it from chords from loads of different sources, so say the G chord was a second sample from one song, the D chord from totally different kind of song and it went on — the process of layering all these turned it into a wall of sound.” Add that to Vinyl Tiger’s Doreen Kirchner and Sudden Ensemble’s vocal contributions, and the end result was “this kinda bratty, super melodic thing.”

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