Mistletone

Artwork by Carl Breitkreuz

!!! TOUR DATES:

• MELBOURNE: Thursday December 7 @ The Curtin. Tickets on sale now from Music Glue. Presented by RRR.
• MEREDITH: Friday December 8 @ Meredith Music Festival. Ticket ballot open now.
• SYDNEY: Thursday December 14 @ Oxford Art Factory. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix. Presented by 2SER.
• + more to come!

!!! are one of Earth’s great live bands; something you have to experience in the flesh to truly comprehend.  To quote Aunty Meredith in her !!! wisdom:

“Designed for celebration. Built for energy generation. Engineered for euphoric elevation. Tested in all atmospheric conditions. Certified to issue failsafe moodproof bigband surefunk dancepunk. In poolboy shorts. Any beat that moves you is fuel for their six cylinders: twitchy R&B, queasy dub-disco, discotheque disco, romantic house, any quality propulsive groove. They turn any space into a dance club.”

Listen to “The Long Walk,” a brand new !!! track from a limited edition hand-stamped white label 12″ EP called Shake The Shut Up, available on their upcoming Australian tour: “a deliciously dirty disco-house groove elevated to celestial heights by gospel-tinged backing vocals” (Stereogum):

While  !!!’s  live  shows  are  something  to  behold,  they  underscore  the  sheer musicianship and songwriting that goes into recording their albums. It is a lot of hard work made to  look  easy.  “Most  of  the  songs  on Shake the Shudder  are  based  off  of  jams”, says frontman Nic Offer, “and  since  we  record  every  jam,  most  of  the  tracks  here  feature moments we  actually  recorded  from those  jams. Most  artists have  to dig  through  the  crates  to find  that one  sample  nobody has used  but  we  can  sample  ourselves,  having  been playing  this style of music for awhile now. As a band we try to play it the way the JBs would, as producers we try to mix it the way a DJ would.”

Shake the Shudder are words to live by and ones that !!! fully embrace. There are always fears to  be  faced  and  new  paths  to  forge,  and  those  uncertainties  never  hold  them  back.  They  just propel  them  to  jump  in  head  first.  For  years,  !!!  have  run  the  dance  band  gambit  and  become New  York  City  legends.  From  their  start  in  Sacramento,  to  Brooklyn  house  party  staples  and Union  Pool  residencies,  and  now  delighting  festival  stages  from  Primavera  to  FYF,  they’ve cemented their place as part of New York’s live dance scene — while others have drifted into the history  books.

Shake The Shudder is a product of !!!’s DIY punk roots presenting a harder edge lyrically and sonically,  while  incorporating  trans-Atlantic  electronic  music  influences.  Regularly  enlisting  the aid of talented female vocalists to elevate to their sound, this new album is no exception with the inclusion  of  up  and  coming  talents  Lea  Lea  and  Meah  Pace  showcasing energetic  breakout performances that only hints at what they do live. And Nic Offer is no easy frontman to keep up with on stage.

The  new  record  opens  with “The  One  2”,  diving  right  into  this  experimentation, “we’ve  always admired this style of dance music from afar and were curious if we could add our twist to it, our twist being a plotline and some attitude.” Immediately segueing into the soon-to-be live favorite “Dancing  Is  The  Best  Revenge” (below),  which  premiered  on  Last  Call  With  Carson  Daly,  the  record starts off with a bang and doesn’t let up till the closing groove “R Rated Pictures.”