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It’s tongue in cheek, it’s like walking, taking a first step in a new place before everything changes in weird and excellent ways. How many dance records start off with an acoustic track? LET IT BE BLUE does. LET IT BE BLUE is a record about discovery, uncovering new parts of yourself. We’re not in the New York City lofts of yore, we’re on a goddam beach, pupils dilated, bouncing from high BPM.
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When Angelica Garcia hops on vocals on Un Puente, the scenery changes again. On this record, that desire to experiment alongside other artists feels especially realised. In the past decade, the band has collaborated with an exciting rotation of artists. It started on THR!!!ER, a record that you might consider a turning point in the band’s expansive discography. This shift has been in the works for a decade. The record’s cast of collaborators are another !!! signature, another way for the band to feel constantly excited about the discovery process that is making new work.
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It’s minimalist but that doesn’t at all mean these songs aren’t complicated, self-contained worlds. “ Starting as a band with seven or eight people, we were always crowding everything in and trying to fit as many parts in as possible,” says Offer. Making something sparse was an exciting challenge for the band. It evokes visions of clubs where a concoction of Dembow and acid house play at volumes so loud your ears hurt and you forget what day of the week it is.
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They’re crystalline, full of sub-bass and drums. The resulting eleven songs are some of the band’s most production-focused offerings to date. It was conceived during the past two years, with dreams of future dancefloors very much on the brain. Featuring production from Patrick Ford, it is the product of file sharing, trading stems, song particles, little ideas on their way to being fully realised dance tracks. LET IT BE BLUE is a computer record but it doesn’t feel like it. The kind of stuff you want to put on loud, let loose, go to the bar and get a drink, only to abandon your plans because the song that just came on was too good not to dance to. The band’s ninth record, LET IT BE BLUE, takes that feeling of constant, radical transformation to new, untapped zones. To quote front man Nic Offer, “ We’ve always been pushing towards something stranger and weirder we had to keep pushing on”. For !!! music is a place where anything can happen. Dance punk New York royals !!! know the feeling well – they’ve been releasing urgent, obliterative, F-U music for 25 years. Every new thing you make has to feel like a statement, the best new version of yourself. There’s this thing about art where in order to make it feel exciting for yourself, you have to reinvent yourself each time. LET IT BE BLUE LP // OUT NOW VIA WARP // LISTEN HERE