Well, that’s a funky feel-good shot in the arm, if ever there was one. “Got To Go” sounds like one of those big hits from the early nineties that you somehow seem to have forgotten about, but which lights the room up when it comes on the radio.
But that isn’t to say that Molly Gone Mad are just delivering more of the same, far from it, but if someone said to you that they saw them support Jamiroquai or The Brand New Heavies back in the day, you would probably nod sagely and not argue the point.
“Got To Go” runs on spacious, funky backbeats, with the skittering drums and melodic bassline, almost enough to carry the day as it is. But add in some soulful guitar licks, the occasional, distant sound of breezy brass, a few clever sonic motifs, and a cool, infectiously sing-along-able vocal, and you have a brilliant piece of groovesome, dancable, neo-soul meets funk-pop.
And the lyrical punchline matches the playfulness of the music, the urgency of the lyrics revealing themselves not to be rooted in the need to be at some special event or dramatic occasion; there is no disaster to be averted or life-afirming experience to be had, but simply the desire to sit down on time and have dinner with his partner. Simple pleasures, man, isn’t that really what life is all about?
What a clever song, what a cool vocal switch.
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