Review: !!! - Myth Takes (or) the smell of napalm in the morning

Posted on 24 March 2007 | 1 Comment

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Electronic, New Wave, Noise

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!!! (pronounced chk chk chk) is back. Their latest album Myth Takes is overflowing with slinky dance-punk that has (somehow) mysteriously writhed its way up from the subterranean depths. Guitars whirr and horns stab while the drums pump out dance floor banging beats like a candy factory gone awry.

The music makes you want to move. It is organic, glitchy, bouncy, and conjures images of darkly sweaty bodies that are moving hyper-motion. Myth Takes makes your heart pound. Like NYC in the middle of the jungle, this is the perfect soundtrack for a dance party into the heart of darkness. “Yadnus” is like a sacrificial (and almost Rammstein-esqe) death march. A perfect and funky urban jungle dub disco deconstruction.

Myth Takes combines bits and pieces of almost every genre imaginable and distills them into relentless visceral sexy disco-punk jams that (by comparison) make The Rapture seem safe. Fans of LCD Soundsystem, Black Dice, Orblivion, and Gang Gang Dance should take notice. !!! has hit their stride. Myth Takes is out now on Warp Records.

MP3 | !!! – Heart Of Hearts Myth Takes
MP3 | !!! – Must Be The Moon Myth Takes