!!! (album)
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!!! is the eponymous debut album
by !!!
. It was released in 2001 on Gold Standard Laboratories
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Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by !!!
!!!
!!! is a dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, in 1996. Members of !!! came from other local bands such as The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers...
. It was released in 2001 on Gold Standard Laboratories
Gold Standard Laboratories
Gold Standard Laboratories or GSL was an independent record label which was founded in 1993 in Boulder, Colorado by Sonny Kay. In 2000, it was relocated to San Diego, California, USA, and two years later, to Los Angeles. It was headquartered in L.A...
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Personnel
- Guitar – Mario Andreoni
- Bass – Justin Van Der VolgenJustin Van Der VolgenJustin Van Der Volgen is an American musician, mixer with Out Hud from 1996 to 2005 and !!! from 1996 to 2007.Van der Volgen remixed Maserati's "Inventions" for their 2008 Inventions Remixed 12" on Temporary Residence.- References :...
- Vocals – Nic OfferNic OfferNic Offer is a New York City-based musician. He is best known as the vocalist of the dance/punk band !!!, which he helped form in Sacramento, California in 1996. Offer also played bass and keyboards for the electronic band Out Hud from 1996 until 2005.-External links:* *...
- Trumpet and percussion – Dan Gorman
- Guitar – Tyler Pope!!!!!! is a dance-punk band that formed in Sacramento, California, in 1996. Members of !!! came from other local bands such as The Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Popesmashers...
- Saxophone and percussion – Allan Wilson
- Drums and percussion – John Pugh
- Additional vocals – Everybody
CD version
LP version
Reception
- allmusic (Johnny Loftus) - "On this [album], !!! trash the axiom that says bands influenced by angular post-punk must be populated by dour misanthropes who sport wallet photos of Ian Curtis. Highly recommended."
- Piero ScaruffiPiero ScaruffiPiero Scaruffi received a degree in Mathematics in 1982 from University of Turin, where he did work on the General Theory of Relativity. For a number of years he was the head of the Artificial Intelligence Center at Olivetti, based in Cupertino, California. He has been a visiting scholar at...
- "[!!! contains] the convoluted funk a` la Contortions of 'The Step', the obsessively vulgar and repetitive 'Kookooka Fuk-U', the nine-minute 'There's No Fucking Rules Dude', that is more of an atmospheric piece than a purely edonistic dance, contaminated with psychedelic, hip-hop, dissonant and ska elements, the relentless mutating funk machine of 'Intensify', and the gargantuan electronic counterpoint of 'Feel Good Hit Of The Fall'."