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{{short description|American dance-punk band}}

{{About|the band|the album|!!! (album){{!}}!!! (album)|other uses}}

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{{Use American English|date=July 2020}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2012}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = !!!

| alias = Chk Chk Chk

| image = Chkchkchk.jpg

| landscape = yes

| caption = !!! performing at the Flow Festival in 2007

| origin = Sacramento, California, U.S.

| genre = {{hlist|Dance-punk|post-punk revival|alternative dance|funk rock|disco-rock|indietronica}}

| years_active = 1996–present

| label = {{hlist|Warp|Touch and Go|Gold Standard}}

| spinoff_of = {{hlist|Black Liquorice|Pope Smashers}}

| spinoffs = {{hlist|Out Hud}}

| website = {{URL|https://chkchkchk.net/}}

| current_members = {{unbulleted list|Nic Offer|Mario Andreoni|Dan Gorman|Rafael Cohen|Meah Pace|Chris Egan|Paul Quattrone}}

| past_members = {{unbulleted list|John Pugh|Mikel Gius|Allan Wilson|Tyler Pope|Jason Racine|Justin Van Der Volgen|Jerry Fuchs|Shannon Funchess}}

| background = group_or_band

}}

!!! ({{IPAc-en|tʃ|(|ɪ|)|k|.|tʃ|(|ɪ|)|k|.|tʃ|(|ɪ|)|k}} {{Respell|ch(i)k-ch(i)k-ch(i)k}}), also known as Chk Chk Chk, is an American band from Sacramento, California.{{harvnb|Coscarelli|2007}}

Formed in 1996 by lead singer Nic Offer, members of !!! came from other local bands such as the Yah Mos, Black Liquorice and Pope Smashers. They are currently based in New York City. The band's ninth album, Let It Be Blue, was released in May 2022.

History

!!! was formed in the fall of 1996 by the merger of members of the groups Black Liquorice and Pope Smashers, while on tour. After a successful joint tour, the two bands decided to mix the disco-funk with more aggressive sounds and integrate the hardcore singer Nic Offer from the Yah Mos. Offer has cited Depeche Mode and OMD as influences.{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1345401/turntable-interview/interviews/|title=Turntable Interview: !!!|last=Locker|first=Melissa|date=May 9, 2013|website=Stereogum|access-date=May 24, 2021}}

The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking sounds of the San people's Juǀʼhoan language were represented as "!". However, as the bandmembers themselves say, !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice any monosyllabic sound. "Chk Chk Chk" is the most common pronunciation, and the URL of their official website and the title of their Myspace page suggest it is the preferred pronunciation.

The band's full-length debut record came out in 2000 as a self-titled album on the label Gold Standard Laboratories. This was followed in 2003 by the single "Me and Giuliani Down By the School Yard", a lengthy track combining house beats with sinewy basslines, psychedelic guitars, and simple lyrics which quote the title song of the musical Footloose.

A second full-length, Louden Up Now, was released on Touch and Go in America and on Warp Records in Europe in June 2004. In June 2005 !!! released a new EP covering "Take Ecstasy with Me" by The Magnetic Fields, and "Get Up" by Nate Dogg. The following December, the original drummer for the band, Mikel Gius, was struck and killed by a car while riding his bike.{{harvnb|Anon|2005}}

They released their third album, Myth Takes in 2007.{{harvnb|Seabrook|2007}}{{harvnb|Diver|2006}}

File:Coachella2004 ChkChkChk.jpg in 2004]]

!!! is composed of Mario Andreoni (guitar), Dan Gorman (horns/percussion/keys), Nic Offer (vocals), Rafael Cohen (bass/various electronic devices), Chris Egan (drums) and Meah Pace (vocals).

Vocalist and drummer John Pugh officially left the band in July 2007 to concentrate on his new band Free Blood.{{harvnb|Maher|Solarski|2007}}

Vocalist Shannon Funchess stood in for Pugh during much of their 2007 tour.{{harvnb|Lopez|2010}} The band also shared membership with the similar, defunct group Out Hud (including Tyler Pope, who has played with LCD Soundsystem and written music for Cake).{{harvnb|Chinen|2007}}

Discography

=Albums=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1"

|+ List of albums, with selected chart positions

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:8em;"| Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"| Album details

! scope="col" colspan="5"| Peak chart positions

scope="col" style="width:4em;font-size:90%;"| US
{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/chk-chk-chk-2/chart-history/tlp/|title=		! (Chk Chk Chk) Chart History: Billboard 200|magazine=Billboard|access-date=September 19, 2010}}

! scope="col" style="width:4em;font-size:90%;"| US Elec.
{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/chk-chk-chk-2/chart-history/elp/|title=

! (Chk Chk Chk) Chart History: Top Dance/Electronic Albums|magazine=Billboard|access-date=March 21, 2021}}

! scope="col" style="width:4em;font-size:90%;"| FRA
{{harvnb|Anon|2014}}

! scope="col" style="width:4em;font-size:90%;"| JPN
{{harvnb|Anon|2017}}

! scope="col" style="width:4em;font-size:90%;"| UK
{{harvnb|Anon|2017a}}

scope="row" | !

|

| — || — || — || — || —

scope="row" | Louden Up Now

|

| — || 4 || 169 || — || 135

scope="row" | Myth Takes

|

  • Released: March 5, 2007
  • Label: Warp

| 195 || 3 || 134 || 36 || 135

scope="row" | Strange Weather, Isn't It?

|

  • Released: August 24, 2010
  • Label: Warp

| — || 13 || 112 || 54 || —

scope="row" | Thr%21%21%21er

|

  • Released: April 29, 2013
  • Label: Warp{{harvnb|Minsker|2013}}

| — || 18 || 117 || 62 || 121

scope="row" | As If

|

  • Released: October 16, 2015
  • Label: Warp

| — || 18 || — || 80 || —

scope="row" | Shake the Shudder

|

  • Released: May 19, 2017
  • Label: Warp

| — || — || — || 153 || —

scope="row" | Wallop

|

  • Released: August 30, 2019{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/au/album/wallop/1467177046|title=Wallop by
!|website=Apple Music|access-date=June 20, 2019}}
  • Label: Warp

    • | — || — || — || 166 || —

    scope="row" | Let It Be Blue

    |

    • Released: May 6, 2022{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/let-it-be-blue/1608368304|title=Let It Be Blue by
    		!|website=Apple Music|access-date=May 7, 2022}}
  • Label: Warp

    • | — || — || — || — || —

    colspan="7" style="font-size:90%" | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

    =EPs=

    • Lab Series Vol. 2 [GSL26] (Split with Out Hud, 1999, Gold Standard Labs)
    • Live! Live! Live! (November 20, 2004, Beat Records, Japan only)
    • Yadnus (2007)
    • Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass E.P. (November 2010)
    • Daytrotter Session (May 29, 2013, Daytrotter Studio [Rock Island, IL])
    • R!M!X!S (January 8, 2014, Japanese Import, WAP359D)
    • MEGAM!!!X Vol.1: Shake Shake Shake (March 21, 2018)
    • Certified Heavy Kats (July 31, 2020){{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/chk-chk-chk-announce-certified-heavy-kats-ep-share-new-song-listen/|title=!!! (Chk Chk Chk) Announce Certified Heavy Kats EP, Share New Song: Listen|website=Pitchfork|access-date=August 19, 2020|date=July 8, 2020}}

    =Singles=

    File:Nic Offer (!!!).jpg in Reading, England (2006).]]

    class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1"

    |+ List of singles, with selected chart positions

    ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;"| Title

    ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:2em;"| Year

    ! scope="col" colspan="1"| Peak chart positions

    ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:12em;"| Album

    scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| UK
    scope="row" | "The Dis-Ease/The Funky Branca"

    | 1998

    | —

    | {{n/a|Non-album single}}

    scope="row" | "Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)"

    | 2003

    | 84

    | rowspan="4" | Louden Up Now

    scope="row" | "Pardon My Freedom"

    | rowspan="3" | 2004

    | —

    scope="row" | "Hello? Is This Thing On?"

    | 74

    scope="row" | "Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A Remix)"

    | —

    scope="row" | "Take Ecstasy With Me/Get Up"

    | rowspan="1" | 2005

    | 213

    | {{n/a|Non-album single}}

    scope="row" | "Heart of Hearts"

    | rowspan="2" | 2007

    | —

    | rowspan="2"| Myth Takes

    scope="row" | "Must Be the Moon"

    | —

    scope="row" | "AM/FM"

    | 2010

    | —

    | Strange Weather, Isn't It?

    scope="row" | "Slyd"

    | rowspan="3" | 2013

    | —

    | rowspan="2" | THR

    		!ER
    scope="row" | "One Girl / One Boy"

    | —

    scope="row" | "And Anyway It's Christmas"{{Cite web |last=lostsides |date=2014-04-02 |title=Chk Chk Chk (!) – And Anyway It's Christmas (2013) |url=https://christmasunderground.com/2014/04/02/chk-chk-chk-and-anyway-its-christmas-2013/ |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=Christmas Underground |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Hilleary |first=Mike |title=Listen:! - "And Anyway It's Christmas" |url=https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/listen_-_and_anyway_its_christmas |access-date=2023-03-16 |website=www.undertheradarmag.com |language=en}}

    | —

    | {{n/a|Non-album single}}

    scope="row" | "All U Writers"

    | rowspan="3" | 2015

    | —

    | rowspan="3" | As If

    scope="row" | "Freedom '15" / "Sick Ass Moon"

    | —

    scope="row" | "Bam City" / "Ooo"

    | —

    scope="row" | "I Feel So Free" (Lost Souls of Saturn Remix)

    | 2016

    | —

    | {{n/a|Non-album single}}

    scope="row" | "The One 2"

    | rowspan="2" | 2017

    | —

    | rowspan="2" | Shake the Shudder

    scope="row" | "Dancing Is the Best Revenge"

    | —

    scope="row" | "Serbia Drums"

    |2019

    |—

    |Wallop

    scope="row" | "I'm Sick of This/So We Can F*ck"

    | rowspan="3" | 2020

    | —

    | {{n/a|Non-album single}}

    scope="row" | "Do the Dial Tone"

    |—

    | rowspan="2" | Certified Heavy Kats

    scope="row" | "Walk It Off"

    |—

    =Other projects=

    • !!! (1997, tour cassette)

    Footnotes

    {{reflist|2}}

    References

    • {{cite web | author = Anon | year = 2017 | url = http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/340071/rank/album/ | title = !!!(チック・チック・チック)のランキング | trans-title = Ranking of tick, tick, tick | access-date = March 21, 2021 | website = Oricon News | language = ja | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170624221248/http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/340071/rank/album/ | archive-date = June 24, 2017 | url-status=live | df = mdy-all }}
    • {{cite web | author = Anon | year = 2017a | url = http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_NUM.HTM | title = Chart Log UK: Numerals | website = Zobbel | access-date = August 24, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171227233943/http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_NUM.HTM | archive-date = December 27, 2017 | url-status=live | df = mdy-all }}
    • {{cite web | author = Anon | year=2014 | url = https://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=%21%21%21 | title = !!! (Chk Chk Chk) discography | website = lescharts.com | access-date = March 21, 2021 | language = fr}}
    • {{cite news | author = Anon | url = http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SB&p_theme=sb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10E9E4D5950028E0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | title = Orangevale bicyclist killed | access-date = August 24, 2017 | date = December 19, 2005 | work = Sacramento Bee | page = B2 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110609162655/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SB&p_theme=sb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10E9E4D5950028E0&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | archive-date = June 9, 2011 | url-status=live | df = mdy-all }}
    • {{cite news | last = Chinen | first = Nate | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/arts/music/18chin.html?pagewanted=all | title = Still Disco-Punk, Still Spoiling for a Fight | access-date = August 24, 2017 | date = March 18, 2007 | work = The New York Times }}
    • {{cite web | last = Coscarelli | first = Joseph | url = http://www.thedelimagazine.com/FeatureView.php?artist=chkchkchk | title = !!! (Chk Chk Chk) post-punk puctuation | date = July 30, 2007 |website = The Deli Magazine | access-date = August 24, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170625025625/http://www.thedelimagazine.com/FeatureView.php?artist=chkchkchk | archive-date = June 25, 2017 | url-status=live | df = mdy-all }}
    • {{cite web | last = Diver | first = Mike | url = http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1313479 | title = It's no rumour, it's a Myth. Takes eight to make it !!! | access-date = August 24, 2017 | date = November 18, 2006 | website = Drowned in Sound | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170807032802/http://pitchfork.com/news/49345-the-new-album-is-called-threr/ | archive-date = August 7, 2017 | url-status=live | df = mdy-all }}
    • {{Cite news | last = Lopez | first = Michael | url = http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printView/6616421 | title = !!! at The Clubhouse Last Night | date = September 6, 2010 | work = Phoenix New Times | access-date = August 23, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180709094404/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printView/6616421 | archive-date = July 9, 2018 | url-status=live | df = mdy-all }}
    • {{cite web | last1 = Maher | first1 = Dave | last2 = Solarski | first2 = Matthew | url = http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/46289-john-pugh-leaves-fires-up-free-blood | website = Pitchfork | title = John Pugh Leaves !!!, Fires Up Free Blood | date = Jul 11, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080513010104/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/46289-john-pugh-leaves-fires-up-free-blood | archive-date = May 13, 2008 | access-date = August 25, 2010 | url-status=dead | df = mdy-all }}
    • {{cite web | last = Minsker | first = Evan | title = The New !!! Album Is Called THR!!!ER | url = http://pitchfork.com/news/49345-the-new-album-is-called-threr/ | publisher = Pitchfork Media | access-date = August 24, 2017 | date = January 29, 2013 | website = Pitchfork }}
    • {{cite web | last = Seabrook | first = Andrea | url = https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=10236467 | title = The Musicians of !!!: Making Their Own 'Myths' | access-date = August 24, 2017 | date = May 17, 2007 | format = MP3 | website = NPR | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170825060559/http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=10236467 | archive-date = August 25, 2017 | url-status=live | df = mdy-all }}

    External links

    {{Commons category}}

    • {{Official website|1=https://chkchkchk.net/}}
    • {{cite web|url=https://www.paradigmagency.com/music/chk-chk-chk/ |title=Profile on Music Agency Website |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807185821/https://www.paradigmagency.com/music/chk-chk-chk/ |archivedate=August 7, 2019 }}

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    Category:Touch and Go Records artists