!!! (CHK CHK CHK) | Strange Weather isn’t it?
!!! (CHK CHK CHK) returns with “Strange Weather isn’t it?”
“Everyone wants to make their Berlin record, and everyone’s got a Berlin album in them, so we wanted to put ours out,” !!!’s lead singer Nic Offer says, with tongue partially in cheek, of the group’s fourth album, Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
Following in the footsteps of artists like David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, U2 and Peaches, who have flocked to Berlin in order to mainline the city’s legendary dark energy, !!! traveled to the German capital to produce a record that is simultaneously brooding and their glossiest, most immediate record yet. On the one hand, Strange Weather, Isn’t It? is !!!’s most texturally rich record to date and is filled with deep, galvanizing grooves. On the other, there’s a dark undercurrent running through the record that acts as a counterpoint to the glittering surfaces.
The result is an album that is richer and more detailed and less spiky than any of !!!’s previous albums.
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