Smashing Mag/ "ミス・テイク " !!! (チック・チック・チック)

!!! (チック・チック・チック)

"ミス・テイク"
(国内盤)

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!!! (Chk Chk Chk)

http://www.brainwashed.com/!!/

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previous works

"Louden Up Now"
(国内盤 / UK import)

"Live!Live!Live!" (国内盤)
"Hello? Is This Thing On?" (UK import)
"Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)" (UK import)
"!!! (chk chk chk)" (US import /

)
... and more

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mag files : !!! (Chk Chk Chk)

CD review : Myth Takes : (07/02/02) : review by michael

photo report : (06/06/29 @ Koko, London) : photos by emi

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"Everybody over there! Get on up. Everybody right there! Get into it. Everybody right there! Get involved." Fittingly, like JB always did in this classic and in the countless others 'til his passing last year, !!! continue to fortify their collective flowing flight plan as they enter their second decade in full bloom. Throughout their pulsating cross genre liberator 'Myth Takes,' their 3rd release and first post the stunning loss of original drummer Mikel Gius, they firmly continue their infectious global groove crusade.

In this vigorously syncopated blending tapestry in reverberations, Nic Offer (vocals), John Pugh (drums, vocals), Allan Wilson (percussion, horns), Mario Andreoni (guitar), Tyler Pope (guitar, keys), Justin Vandervolgen (bass, sound engineering tweaks) and Dan Gorman (percussion, horns) are off the blocks straightaway in the hypnotic hurried pulsing title track, luring you into their den. Their policy of truth from zero inhibitions unleashes in the relentless crashing "All My Heroes Are Weirdos" that slaps you silly into new freedoms as this massive primal stimulation slides into the hooking, drop your drawers marching, breaking trance of "Must Be A Moon." "A New Name" further takes their post-punk-funk to get your junk in the trunk moving about in full as its gliding chorus into snare-rolls awash a forever meaty, beaty, bouncy bass cascades into the tune-up beginnings of the blossoming, charging "Heart Of Hearts." Continually surging awash converging guitars, keys and percussion while Vandervolgen's bass threads. "Sweet Life" provides a mild floor breather to reflect on your past acrobatics, peeling out into the increasingly steady, under your skin rumblings of "Yadnus" that willingly enslave you into the wanton mindless floor shuffler "Bend Over Beethoven." Dumping directly into the early 80's arcade of "Break In Case Of Anything," closer "Infinifold" has you looking left and right in summarizing your new reality as it walks you out. Acoustic bonus track 'Myth Takes' further punctuates this lasting liberation from a communal learn by doing experience.

reviewed by michael