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THR!!!ER (pronounced Thriller) is the punchy, immediate return of twelve-legged bicoastal powerhouse !!! (pronounced chk chk chk) more honest, more interesting, more fun than ever before.
A fantastic early reaction, with the teaser single playlisted at 6Music, Pitchfork calling the title the best album title of 2013, and Dummy asking Are they one of the worlds most underrated bands?
Guitarist Mario Andreoni explains that title: Over the course of many long van rides and post-coffee verbal riff sessions, we concluded that Thriller became synonymous with an artist(s) and / or genre(s) artistic high-water mark. INXS Kick is the Australian Thriller, Alanis Jagged Little Pill is the Canadian Thriller, Whams Make It Big is the blow-dryers Thriller, every recording by the 13th Floor Elevators is the dosed-mans Thriller, Sister Ray by Velvet Underground is the Thriller of musical fever dreams. One day at the studio, Nic [Offer, vocalist] drew THR!!!ER on a napkin and I liked it, then we made our THR!!!ER.
!!! are a bicoastal band with over a decade of history. Nic Offer, keyboardist Daniel Gorman and new bassist Rafael Cohen all live in Brooklyn, drummer Paul Quattrone resides in Pittsburgh, keyboardist Allan Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon, while Andreoni remains in Sacramento, where the group was formed. Understandably, writing new music wasnt the easiest of processes. In the past we just put albums together any way that works, says Andreoni, That usually meant a lot of jamming on loose ideas. For THR!!!ER, !!! went into the studio with everything written and a strong sense of each songs shape.
Producer Jim Eno (Spoon) helmed the recordings, leading to a tighter, concise pack of great songs than ever before. This also took the band in new directions, notably on the Detroit house-infused Slyd and the raging guitars of Station, whilst also keeping their ear for a pop hook like no other (One Girl / One Boy).
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