It’s been 3 years since The Go! Team charmed us all silly with their marvellous debut album ‘Thunder, Lightning, Strike’ –garnering a mercury nomination in the process. This then, is the first cut off their second long player ‘Proof Of Youth’ scheduled for release at the tail end of summer.

Initial inspection reveals a rather curious affair. ‘Grip like a vice’ seemingly does anything but what its says on the tin. It runs just shy of four minutes but fails to engage for the duration – for a comeback single this simply won’t do. But, thankfully, all is not lost as is a record whose true colours are slow in coming to fruition, but what colours! This is electro garage fusion courtesy of fly girl raps, howling keyboards, and mammoth drums. Yep, they still pack a punch, and then some.

Given a little time ‘Grip like a vice’ eventually serves as a lovely little taster of (hopefully) further good things to come. Welcome back The Go! Team.