We’ve written at length about England’s The Go! Team and their fantastic live shows. The last time they were in town, they drove the Black Cat crowd into a frenzy, and now they’ll be doing the same thing at the 9:30 Club tonight for a late show (10 p.m. doors).

We recently spoke to Ninja, the band’s energetic female MC who serves as the live show’s focal point, on the phone from Los Angeles where the band was doing press. The band is touring behind their just-released second album, Proof of Youth, which musically matches their fantastic first, Thunder, Lightning, Strike — same playground chants, old school hip hop call-outs, sample-frenzied music, and twin drummer cacophony. And that’s just what they were going for again.

“I’m not sure were were trying to to accomplish anything [with this album],” said Ninja. “We have something in common, we enjoy the music we do and we enjoy putting it all together. It’s almost a continuation of the first album, but with more guests instead of samples. It’s more of the same, 60’s, noisy guitar, girl group.”

The sound mix is the same as the first album as well, meaning that Ninja’s forceful vocals are often hidden by the surrounding noise. “There’s still loads of distortion,” she said. “It’s not meant to be finished or polished. It’s kind of a kids’ chorus, we like that.” Live, however, Ninja is the leader, bouncing around and getting the crowd excited while the band rumbles behind her.

And converting the sound from the album to a live show can be daunting. “Someone who is doing it for the first time would have a heart attack or go crazy, but we’re used it it — chaotic, fast, messy, crazy,” she said. “There are a million channels, we put everything into it. It’s exciting and we watch the crowd getting involved, getting crazy and sweaty.”