!!! Announce New Album Let It Be Blue

!!! have announced their new album Let It Be Blue, will drop May 6, via Warp. With the news, the band have shared “Storm Around The World"
!!! photo by Rob Saccenti

!!! have announced their new album Let It Be Blue, will drop on May 6, via Warp Records. Along with the announcement, the band has shared the album track “Storm Around The World (ft. Maria Uzor).” !!! will be on tour this year, including shows at Treefort Music Festival in Boise, ID, Just Like Heaven Festival In Pasadena, CA, and Music Hall Of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY.

!!! on “Storm Around the World” – “Storm Around the World” is a song we’ve had since the last album that didn’t really come into focus until Maria Uzor from Sink Ya Teeth added her part and we turned it into a duet. Originally an acid workout about parents who leave on tour it became much more than that with her vocal, which is equal parts sing-song and spoken word and who’s lyrics helped add both a familiarity and a mystery to the song. On this record we were looking for basic minimal arrangements– sub-bass, drums and vocals mostly– and that approach is what finally let us support the vocal parts in a way that worked. The final piece was the beat that our producer Patrick Ford made that felt somewhere between programmed, sampled and played, a blurriness that is another feature of this album, Let it be Blue, which was mostly built on computers but doesn’t always sound or feel that way.

There’s this thing about making art where in order to make it feel exciting for yourself, you have to reinvent yourself each time. You have to keep pushing. Go at it like a beginner. Take a white wall and color it in. Every new thing you make has to feel like a statement, the best new version of yourself. Dance punk royals !!! know the feeling well—they’ve been releasing urgent, obliterative, fuck-you music for 25 years. Music, for !!!, has to be a place where anything can happen. To quote frontman Nic Offer “We’ve always been pushing towards something stranger and weirder. We had to keep pushing on.”

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Let It Be Blue
Tracklist
Warp Records

1. Normal People
2. A Little Bit (More)
3. Storm Around The World (feat. Maria Uzor)
4. Un Puente (feat. Angelica Garcia)
5. Here’s What I Need To Know
6. Panama Canal (feat. Meah Pace)
7. Man On The Moon (feat. Meah Pace)
8. Let It Be Blue
9. It’s Grey, It’s Grey (It’s Grey)
10. Crazy Talk
11. This Is Pop 2

2022 Tour Dates

Mar 26 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Fest
Mar 30 – Madrid, ES – Teatro Eslava
Mar 31 – Valencia, ES – Moon Valencia
Apr 01 – Barcelona, ES – Sala Apolo
May 12 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret
May 13 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
May 14 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
May 16 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s
May 17 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
May 19 – San Diego, CA – Casbah
May 20 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace
May 21 – Pasadena, CA – Just Like Heaven Fest
Jun 08 – Washington, DC – Union Stage
Jun 09 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
Jun 10 – Fairfield, CT – The Warehouse
Jun 11 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
Jun 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Music Hall
Jun 14 – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House
Jun 15 – Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village
Jun 17 – Ferndale, MI – The Loving Touch
Jun 18 – Columbus, OH – Rumba Cafe

Order tickets for !!! HERE

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