Ten songs coming in shy of fifty minutes might not be a world-beater for your average emo band, but for a bunch of guys whose last single weighed in at more than a third of that, it's like John Holmes reborn as a castrato.  Full text...

As mantras go by, how about this one: "We just like it to be wild and weird and sound like it's from another world and make you dance harder than anything else. It's always been about the quest for the funkiest, weirdest track that we could find - whatever style of music it falls into."  Full text...

!!!’s third long-play release – their second for Warp, very much a label of the moment what with the forthcomings from Maximo Park and Battles – is their best yet: it’s multi-faceted like no release before it (from the band’s catalogue), and each and every nuance is super funky. Yes, the word’s permitted here. Just don’t go dressing it up with ‘punk’ prefixes.  Full text...

Far more rounded than Louden Up Now, the new record follows !!!'s tautly funky jams down multiple generic paths, as on the album-opening title track, which combines noir-ish rockabilly and eerie industrial whistling.  Full text...

Raise your steins, friends, to the liberating power of the under-think, the temperament in which just one exclamation point is never enough.  Full text...

Myth Takes, presents !!! as a band that's figured out exactly what it's good at. If they stay the course, continuing to streamline and focus, we can expect many fine albums to come.  Full text...

On Myth Takes, !!! joins the growing number of onetime serious funk/dance punks who are through being cool, done with proving themselves.  Full text...

Ultimately !!! overcomes the setback, but the overall appeal of the record suffers a significant deal.  Full text...

Myth Takes is a record that's tough not to enjoy, even while you're wondering if you shouldn't.   Full text...

!!!'s dark grooves are nicely varied, from the tumbling funk of "All My Heroes Are Weirdos" to the almost-psych-rock "Yadnus." Tedium is a problem, but danceability is a given. And if you don't feel like shaking ass to this at first, try it with drugs.  Full text...

Myth Takes is nowhere near as good as that album, and while it is by no means a bad disc, it is still not quite as good as one suspects it could have been.  Full text...

From there the first half of the album blurs together, the songs largely indistinguishable from each other. They all have that spidery guitar part, they all sound cluttered with too much noise. They’re all skittery and overrun with tweaky guitar lines and poly-rhythms. What they’ve got here is the aural equivalent of flailing your arms madly.  Full text...