The Go! Team, The Only Thing New Is You Finding Out About It.

Joining the illustrious likes of Love Will Tear Us Apart, Sit Down, Boys Don’t Cry, and nigh on every decent single The Smiths ever released, The Go! Team’s The Only Thing New Is You Finding Out About It somehow never made it onto a long-playing record. (Or, more specifically, January’s SEMICIRCLE; save for the Japanese CD edition thereof, of course.) Nevertheless, while it may not be mentioned in the same breath as those British indie-pop classics aforesaid, nor, in all likelihood, experience a similar longevity, the song hears Ian Parton et al. at their ebullient best as looped, propulsive kalimba lines combine with warm choral refrains to create a tacitly wistful feel that’s reminiscent of Steve Reich, Sakamoto, and Sake Rock in equal measures. Pour yourself a tall one of this sunny, delightful stuff to get your afternoon going right, therefore…

SEMICIRCLE is available now via Memphis Industries.