The essential shape of a !!! album seems to have improved markedly from the last record, Louden Up Now. Myth Takes kicks with bass drums, pulses with guitars, and toots with the occasional brass. But importantly, !!! is faster, dirtier, and more fun than Cake or Beck. The new album, Myth Takes has a real grounding in diversely instrumented Western American rock bands. !!! in particular have a sound that will be familiar to anybody who has enjoyed the “Alternative genre” in the past ten years. In 2007, the infusion of fundamentalist punk rock musicianship, with dance instrumentation and structure, will uphold and further deconstruct the meaning of dance and rock. What that band lacked, and what many dance bands in the 80s lacked was the rugged baselines and song-writing know-how to carry off critically acclaimed and nasty-long-lasting groves. Anybody who has looked at the Wikipedia article for electronic music knows Kraftwerk as the founders of the man/machine aesthetic of electronica. How is this process of ‘grooving it up’ accomplished? In the case of most bands in the non-genre of dance punk, music in inspired by a not-very-deep reverence for early (70’s and 80’s) electronic music, especially German Krautrock. Fans of bands in the same area of music-for it can’t really be call a genre since dance music’s rival factions are so militant-will certainly know the Rapture, LCD Soundsystem, and perhaps Cut Copy, as groups who take partying-down with baselines and synthesizers into the 2010s. If Burning Man sold out and Death Valley crawled with hipster youth till everybody was drinking absinthe out of Costco water bottles, it would sound like this.Įdgy, mysterious, cinematic, dance band !!! (sometimes pronounced chk chk chk) have recently released Myth Takes, and are set to ride the new dance punk/phunk wave into groove history. !!! rides a dirt-disco punk desert fantasy of mescaline and granola bars from the northeast to the southwest, from electric skyscrapers to trust-fund shanty towns.
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