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!!!
The band !!! performing on stage at Flow Festival in 2007
!!! performing at the Flow Festival in 2007
Background information
Also known asChk Chk Chk
OriginSacramento, California, U.S.
Genres
Years active1996–present
Labels
Spinoffs
Spinoff of
  • Black Liquorice
  • Pope Smashers
Members
  • Nic Offer
  • Mario Andreoni
  • Dan Gorman
  • Rafael Cohen
  • Meah Pace
  • Chris Egan
  • Paul Quattrone
Past members
Websitechkchkchk.net

!!! (/tʃ(ɪ)k tʃ(ɪ)k tʃ(ɪ)k/ CH(I)K CH(I)K CH(I)K), also known as Chk Chk Chk, is an American band from Sacramento, California.[1] Formed in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer, members of !!! came from other local bands such as the Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Pope Smashers. !!! is composed of Mario Andreoni (guitar), Dan Gorman (horns/percussion/keys), Nic Offer (vocals), Rafael Cohen (bass/various electronic devices), Chris Egan (drums) and Meah Pace (vocals).

Vocalist and drummer John Pugh officially left the band in 2007 to concentrate on his new band Free Blood.[2] Vocalist Shannon Funchess stood in for Pugh during much of their 2007 tour.[3] The band also shared membership with the similar, defunct group Out Hud (including Tyler Pope, who has played with LCD Soundsystem and written music for Cake).[4]

Following the release of Myth Takes in 2007,!!! continued to evolve their dance-punk sound with a series of albums, including Strange Weather, Isn't It? (2010), Thr!!!er (2013), As If (2015), Shake the Shudder (2017), Wallop (2019), and Let It Be Blue (2022). They are currently based in New York City.

History

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!!! was formed in the fall of 1996 by the merger of members of the groups Black Liquorice and Pope Smashers, while on tour. After a successful joint tour, the two bands decided to mix the disco-funk with more aggressive sounds and integrate the hardcore singer Nic Offer from the Yah Mos. Offer has cited Depeche Mode and OMD as influences.[5]

The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which alveolar click consonants of the San people's Juǀʼhoan language were represented as "!". However, as the bandmembers themselves say, !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice any monosyllabic sound. "Chk Chk Chk" is the most common pronunciation.[6]

The band's full-length debut record came out in 2000 as a self-titled album on the label Gold Standard Laboratories. This was followed in 2003 by the single "Me and Giuliani Down By the School Yard", a lengthy track combining house beats with sinewy basslines, psychedelic guitars, and simple lyrics which quote the title song of the musical Footloose.

A second full-length album, Louden Up Now, was released on Touch and Go in America and on Warp Records in Europe in June 2004. In June 2005 !!! released a new EP covering "Take Ecstasy with Me" by The Magnetic Fields, and "Get Up" by Nate Dogg. The following December, the original drummer for the band, Mikel Gius, was struck and killed by a car while riding his bike.[7]

!!! performing at Coachella
!!! performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2004

They released their third album, Myth Takes on March 4th, 2007.[6][8] Strange Weather, Isn't It? (their first for new label Warp) was the band's fourth album, released on August 22nd, 2010. Before their next album, there were some major personnel shifts, as longtime member Pope departed and was replaced by bassist Rafael Cohen, and drummer Paul Quattrone joined. The group's fifth album, Thr!!!er, was released on April 28th, 2013 and featured production by Spoon's Jim Eno and vocals from Sonia Moore, a onetime backing vocalist for MC Hammer. They followed it up with an EP of remixes, R!M!X!S, later that year. To prep for the next album, Offer retreated to his N.Y.C. bedroom studio, working with Cohen and eventually finishing 40 songs. They cut it down to the best 30 and hit studios in N.Y.C., Los Angeles, and Austin to record them with help from Eno again, as well as Chris Coady and Patrick Ford, though most of the album was self-produced by the band. As If was released by Warp on October 15, 2015.

Nic Offer singing
!!!'s Nic Offer, supporting The Red Hot Chili Peppers in Reading, England (2006).

Their next album was hatched in a practice space in Barcelona, where they began working out songs during lengthy recorded jam sessions before heading back to their N.Y.C. studio with Patrick Ford, where the core group of Offer, Cohen, Quattrone, Andreoni, and Gorman was augmented by a host of guest artists like Lea Lea, Meah Pace, Nicole Fayu, Cameron Mesirow, and Molly Schnick. The songs began to come together in late 2016 when the band, unnerved and inspired by the political climate, decided to head back to the studio, strip the nearly finished tracks down to the basics, and essentially start over. They recorded 17 songs in four days, then sent them to producers Joakim, Phil Moffa, and Matt Wiggins to give them extra dancefloor punch. The resulting record, 2017's Shake the Shudder, was the band's slickest and most focused to date.

Their eighth full-length, Wallop, was released on August 26, 2019.

Following the release of Wallop, the band released the EP Certified Heavy Kats on July 30th, 2020. The band's ninth studio album Let It Be Blue was released on May 6th 2022.

Discography

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Albums

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List of albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[9]		 US Elec.
[10]		 FRA
[11]		 JPN
[12]		 UK
[13]
!!! —————
Louden Up Now —4169—135
Myth Takes
  • Released: March 5, 2007
  • Label: Warp
 195313436135
Strange Weather, Isn't It?
  • Released: August 24, 2010
  • Label: Warp
 —1311254—
Thr!!!er
  • Released: April 29, 2013
  • Label: Warp[14]
 —1811762121
As If
  • Released: October 16, 2015
  • Label: Warp
 —18—80—
Shake the Shudder
  • Released: May 19, 2017
  • Label: Warp
 ———153—
Wallop
  • Released: August 30, 2019[15]
  • Label: Warp
 ———166—
Let It Be Blue
  • Released: May 6, 2022[16]
  • Label: Warp
 —————
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

EPs

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  • Lab Series Vol. 2 [GSL26] (Split with Out Hud, 1999, Gold Standard Labs)
  • Live! Live! Live! (November 20, 2004, Beat Records, Japan only)
  • Yadnus (2007)
  • Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass E.P. (November 2010)
  • Daytrotter Session (May 29, 2013, Daytrotter Studio [Rock Island, IL])
  • R!M!X!S (January 8, 2014, Japanese Import, WAP359D)
  • MEGAM!!!X Vol.1: Shake Shake Shake (March 21, 2018)
  • Certified Heavy Kats (July 31, 2020)[17]

Singles

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List of singles, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK
[13]
"The Dis-Ease/The Funky Branca" 1998 — Non-album single
"Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)" 2003 84 Louden Up Now
"Pardon My Freedom" 2004 —
"Hello? Is This Thing On?" 74
"Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A Remix)" —
"Take Ecstasy With Me/Get Up" 2005 213 Non-album single
"Heart of Hearts" 2007 — Myth Takes
"Must Be the Moon" —
"AM/FM" 2010 — Strange Weather, Isn't It?
"Slyd" 2013 — THR!!!ER
"One Girl / One Boy" —
"And Anyway It's Christmas"[18][19] — Non-album single
"All U Writers" 2015 — As If
"Freedom '15" / "Sick Ass Moon" —
"Bam City" / "Ooo" —
"I Feel So Free" (Lost Souls of Saturn Remix) 2016 — Non-album single
"The One 2" 2017 — Shake the Shudder
"Dancing Is the Best Revenge" —
"Serbia Drums" 2019 — Wallop
"I'm Sick of This/So We Can F*ck" 2020 — Non-album single
"Do the Dial Tone" — Certified Heavy Kats
"Walk It Off" —

Other projects

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  • !!! (1997, tour cassette)

References

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Citations

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  1. ↑ Coscarelli, Joseph (July 30, 2007). "!!! (Chk Chk Chk): Post-Punk Puctuation". The Deli. Archived from the original on June 25, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  2. ↑ Maher & Solarski 2007
  3. ↑ Lopez 2010
  4. ↑ Chinen 2007
  5. ↑ Locker, Melissa (May 9, 2013). "Turntable Interview: !!!". Stereogum. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Seabrook 2007
  7. ↑ Anon 2005
  8. ↑ Diver 2006
  9. ↑ "!!! (Chk Chk Chk) Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
  10. ↑ "!!! (Chk Chk Chk) Chart History: Top Dance/Electronic Albums". Billboard. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  11. ↑ Anon 2014
  12. ↑ Anon 2017
  13. 1 2 Anon 2017a
  14. ↑ Minsker 2013
  15. ↑ "Wallop by !!!". Apple Music. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Let It Be Blue by !!!". Apple Music. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  17. ↑ "!!! (Chk Chk Chk) Announce Certified Heavy Kats EP, Share New Song: Listen". Pitchfork. July 8, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  18. ↑ lostsides (April 2, 2014). "Chk Chk Chk (!!!) – And Anyway It's Christmas (2013)". Christmas Underground. Retrieved March 16, 2023.
  19. ↑ Hilleary, Mike (December 6, 2013). "Listen: !!! - "And Anyway It's Christmas"". Under the Radar. Retrieved March 16, 2023.

Bibliography

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