!!! Are Back

Not dead, just frozen.

To be honest, I didn’t think it was going to happen. It’s been more than three years since !!! last released an album, their 2007 hit Myth Takes. On top of that, last year their drummer died in a tragic accident when he fell down a lift shaft – his name was Jerry Fuchs, he was fantastic, he was only 34.

Despite my pessimistic predictions, !!! will be back with a new album later this year entitled Strange Weather, Isn’t It? The band are proclaiming it as their “Berlin album”, suggesting it will be dark and moody like the albums that David Bowie and Iggy Pop produced there. On the contrary, preliminary reports suggest that it’s actually their poppiest album – so which is it? Well, they’re streaming a track for free from their website which sounds a) great, and b) not really any gloomier than their previous stuff.

Check out the new track, AM/FM, at http://chkchkchk.net/ and see what you think.

Strange Weather, Isn’t It? is to be released August 24th on the lovely, lovely Warp Records.

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