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Aug 27, 2019 By Christopher Roberts !!!

!!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk) are releasing a new album, Wallop, this Friday (August 30) via Warp. Now they have shared another song from it, “Couldn’t Have Known,” via a bizarre and colorful animated video directed by Cheng-Hsu Chung. Watch it below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Wallop is the follow-up to 2017’s Shake the Shudder. Previously the band shared four other songs from the album: “UR Paranoid,” “Off the Grid,” “Serbia Drums,” and “This Is the Door” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Frontman Nic Offer recorded the album in his Brooklyn apartment. As well as vocals from Offer and regular co-vocalist Meah Pace, the album also features guest vocals from Liars’ Angus Andrew, Sink Ya Teeth’s Maria Uzor, and Glasser’s Cameron Mesirow.

A previous press release described the album this way: “Like an apocalyptic jukebox, Wallop is jam-packed with various sounds and styles from dance music’s rich history-from the pie-eyed psychedelia of Madchester-era English dance-rock to tunnel-vision techno and the flashy, bomb-dropping sound of UK grime. The candy-coated sounds of ‘90s rave loom large in Wallop‘s playful darkness, a callback to another era when everything felt like it was just about ready to fall apart.”

Offer had this to add: “Diving into ‘90s retro nostalgia is good for us. I know all the ‘80s stuff already, so it’s like, ‘What did happen in the ‘90s?’ Because in the ‘90s, we were just listening to James Brown.”

!!! Tour Dates:

August:

29 - JVAL Openair - Begnins, Switzerland

September:

7 - Hopscotch Music Festival - Raleigh, NC
25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram
26 - San Diego, CA @ Belly Up
27 - Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
28 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
30 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios

October:

01 - Vancouver, BC @ Fortune Sound Club
02 - Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
06 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
07 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
08 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe
10 - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
11 - Kingston, NY @ O+ Festival
12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
13 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes
16 - Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry
17 - Washington, DC@ U Street Music Hall
18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
19 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Thunderbird
30 - Kyoto, JP @ Metro
31 - Osaka, JP @ Anima

November:

01 - Tokyo, JP @ O-East
20 - Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach
21 - Dublin, IE @ Whelan’s
22 - Galway, IE @ Roisin Dubh
25 - Huddersfield, UK @ The Parish
26 - Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
27 - Leeds, UK @ The Wardrobe
28 - York, UK@ The Crescent
29 - London, UK @ EartH
30 - Bristol, UK @ Trinity

December:

01 - Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
02 - Lille, FR @ L’Aeronef
03 - Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
04 - Antwerp, BE @ Zappa
05 - Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
06 - Berlin, DE @ Lido
07 - Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom
10 - Vigo, ES @ Master
11 - Madrid, ES @ Shoko
12 - Barcelona, ES @ Apollo
13 - Valencia, ES @ Rambleta
14 - Murcia, ES @ REM

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