!!! Set May Release For Ninth Album 'Let It Be Blue', Share New Track Storm Around The World
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Tim Saccenti
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) have announced their ninth studio album.
The follow-up to 2019's 'Wallop' is called 'Let It Be Blue' and will arrive on May 6 via Warp. Produced by Patrick Ford, it finds the Californian band experimenting with more minimal yet still danceable sounds. They said:
"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."
Accompanying the news, the group have shared the new catchy alt-pop bop Storm Around The World featuring Maria Uzor of Sink Ya Teeth. The band continued:
"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."
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) will play Treefort Music Festival in Boise, Idaho on March 26, followed by European shows in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. Following that, they'll embark on a North American tour in May. Head here for details.
'Let It Be Blue' tracklist:
1. Normal People
2. A Little Bit (More)
3. Storm Around the World (featuring Maria Uzor)
4. Un Puente (featuring Angelica Garcia)
5. Here's What I Need To Know
6. Panama Canal (featuring Meah Pace)
7. Man On the Moon (featuring 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
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