Tuesday, May 08, 2007

!!!



Yes that is the name of the band. !!! combines catchy guitar riffs with electronic dance beats making for a very irrestible product. The album plays like Pink Floyd married David Bowie, then had a surrogate bastard child with The Cooper Temple Clause. Ok I know that was confusing... but the music isn't. It makes for a great solid album that never stops until the last track. Sometimes the music is spacey, other times forceful and poppy. The album is called Myth Takes and this is the video for one of the better tracks on the album, "Must Be the Moon". Also check out the video for "Heart of Hearts"!

!!! (often pronounced as chk chk chk) is an American band that formed in fall 1996 from the former bandmembers of The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers.

After a tour together, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers decided to mix the former's disco and funk style with the latter's noisy aggressiveness, and !!! was born. The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the mouth-clicking sounds of the Bushmen were represented as "!". In the International Phonetic Alphabet postalveolar click consonants are represented by ǃ which is not an exclamation mark but a pipe with a subscript dot.

Based triply in Sacramento, California, Portland, Oregon and New York City, their debut full-length record came out in 2000 as a self-titled album on the label Gold Standard Laboratories. This was followed in 2003 by the acclaimed single "Me and Giuliani Down By the School Yard", a lengthy track combining house beats with sinewy basslines, psychedelic guitars, and simple, silly lyrics which quote the title song of the musical Footloose. They are known for their cathartic live shows, and are commonly associated with the dance-punk movement.

!!! is composed of Mario Andreoni (guitar), Dan Gorman (horns/percussion/keys), Nic Offer (vocals), Tyler Pope (guitar/various electronic devices), John Pugh (drums/vocals), Justin Van Der Volgen (bass/sound) and Allan Wilson (horns/percussion/keys). Drummer Jerry Fuchs (who has played with The Juan Maclean) joined the band for Myth Takes. Jason Racine formerly played percussion. The band also shared membership with the similar, defunct group Out Hud (including Tyler Pope, who has played with LCD Soundsystem) which played instrumental music that was more dub-influenced and experimental.

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