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Louden Up Now

In your own way, at least once in your life, you too have shouted "Louden Up Now." In American schools, young students have always done this the moment the teacher leaves the classroom, and the previously repressed chaos explodes within the four walls of the classroom.

The !!! (don't ask me why, but they are pronounced and sometimes written as "chk chk chk") are the new discovery of Warp, a label dedicated to talent scouting whenever its leading artists, effectively considered "professors" of committed electronic music, go into hiding (people like Aphex Twin, Autechre, and LFO have been off the scene for quite some time).
The band sets up a chaotic musical circus where every single element, instrument, and note contributes to creating a sound that is light-years away from any experimental ambition and commercial logic, promising to unite in a fiery dance the most diverse musical-cultural souls. The acid consumer of the Hacienda during the Manchester baggy period, the punk, the inevitable anti-globalist (also in this work there are fierce tirades against Bush, Blair, and Giuliani), the nostalgic Woodstock hippie, will suddenly find themselves, sweaty, back to back, thrashing around until they faint.
The bass runs relentlessly, the guitars weave funky, the drums pound followed by percussion with tribal rhythms, Nic Offer, as if it weren't enough, screams like a Joe Strummer dedicated to the club generation, rhythm and melody are launched at breakneck speed on parallel tracks.

Completely captivated by this explosive sonic blend, we end up appreciating every single influence that twists in the musical under-skin of the seven Californian guys.
The driving force of James Brown, punk meeting funk (remember A Certain Ratio and Gang Of Four?), Talking Heads and Can (paid homage to in "Dear Can") revisited and updated, up to reaching the Happy Mondays and Primal Scream of XTRMTR, elements that dispel any suspicion we are facing a mere copy of The Rapture.

With such a name, !!! will inevitably end up at the top of your alphabetically ordered CD list, and this can only be a stroke of luck. In this way, "Louden Up Now" will frequently catch your eye and it will be impossible not to make it the soundtrack of every euphoric, delirious, wild moment, those moments, mind you, when "the teacher on duty" leaves you unattended to go to the bathroom.