"Let's Go" is a song by Australian rock band

King Stingray King Stingray is an Rock music in Australia, Australian rock band from East Arnhem Region, Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. With a sound self-described as "Yolŋu surf rock", the band perform songs with lyrics in both English an ...

, released on 14 June 2022 by

Cooking Vinyl Australia Civilians is an independent record label based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 2013 by co-managing directors Leigh Grupetta and Stu Harvey in partnership with Martin Goldschmidt, Civilians was originally known as Cooking Vinyl Australia. A ...

as the fifth single from the band's self-titled debut album. The song and its music video won two

National Indigenous Music Awards The National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA), also known as the NT Indigenous Music Awards from 2004 to 2008, are music awards presented to recognise excellence, innovation and leadership among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians in ...

in 2023.

Release and music video

The song was released on 14 June 2022 by

as the fifth single from their self-titled debut album. It came with a music video directed by Sam Brumby. The video consists of

road trip A road trip, sometimes spelled roadtrip, is a long-distance Travel, journey traveled by a car or a motorcycle. History First road trips by automobile The world's first recorded long-distance road trip by the automobile took place in German Em ...

footage on the Central Arnhem Highway, inspired by real life road trips the band took on the same road, as well as footage of the band playing in their jam space and at festivals. In a press release, the band's guitarist Roy Kellaway called the highway "the backbone of good times", saying that "Whether it's packing up the Troopy Toyota Troopcarrier with dusty, half-broken band equipment and driving 12 hours to Darwin for a gig, or just going bush to enjoy the great outdoors with our loved ones and friends... the Central Arnhem Highway was the big road to fun times for us growing up, and still is to this day."

Promotion

The band performed the song live, alongside a cover of

Coldplay Coldplay are a British Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1997. They consist of vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer and percussionist Will Champion, and manager Phil Harvey (band m ...

's "

Yellow Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In t ...

", for

Triple J Triple J is an Australian government-funded national radio station founded in 1975 as a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It aims to appeal to young listeners of alternative music, and plays far more Australian conten ...

's ''

Like a Version ''Like a Version'' is a long-running weekly segment on Australian youth radio station Triple J. It involves musicians playing two songs live in the Triple J studio, one of their own songs and then a cover version. The series was created by pres ...

'' show.

Style

The song consists of an

indie rock Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent reco ...

take on the band's usual "loose and

jam Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits whose main preserving agent is sugar and sometimes acid, often stored in glass jars and used as a condiment or spread. There are many varieties of fruit preserves globally, distinguished by the meth ...

my style", with the inclusion of

didgeridoo The didgeridoo (;()), also spelt didjeridu, among other variants, is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous Drone (music), drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgerido ...

and

psychedelic rock Psychedelic rock is a rock music Music genre, genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelia, psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound ...

influence. The song's chorus centers the lyric "Central Arnhem highway on my mind".

Reception

In an album review Ellie Robinson from ''

NME ''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming and culture website, bimonthly magazine, and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a "Rock music, rock inkie", the ''NME'' would be ...

'' said "'Let's Go' pays tribute to the outback road that links it to the rest of Australia" calling the song the "album highlight" saying "where the sharp clack of the

bilma Bilma is an oasis town and commune in north east Niger with, as of the 2012 census, a total population of 4,016 people. It lies protected from the desert dunes under the Kaouar Cliffs and is the largest town along the Kaouar escarpment. It ...

and low rumbling of the

yidaki The didgeridoo (;()), also spelt didjeridu, among other variants, is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. The didgeridoo was developed ...

make the twangy, wah-flourished bridge feel 10 times as intoxicating."

Awards

Personnel

* Yirrnga Gotjiringu Yunupingu – lead vocals, composer * Roy Kellaway – producer, composer * Stuart Kellaway – composer *

Dimathaya Burarrwanga King Stingray is an Australian rock band from Northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. With a sound self-described as "Yolŋu surf rock", the band perform songs with lyrics in both English and Yolŋu Matha. King Stingray released their ...

– backing vocals

References

{{King Stingray 2022 songs 2022 singles King Stingray songs Cooking Vinyl singles Australian indie rock songs Music videos shot in Australia