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Recorded at the band’s home studio in Brooklyn, produced by longtime collaborator Patrick Ford at Taaffe Palace, and mixed by dance luminaries Phil Moffa, Joakim and Matt Wiggins, the album features a cast of changing singers from Lea Lea, Meah Pace, Nicole Fayu, Cameron Mesirow and Molly Schnick. The album title is a fancy way of saying “shake it off and dance your cares away.” !!!’s post punk roots mean the band will always be pushing forward to new sounds but their tastes remain grounded in some form of funk and increasingly in various electronic dance styles. The idea for the new album was born from jamming in Barcelona, and spending months afterwards cutting those recordings into loops to form new songs. Back at home in Brooklyn, lead singer Nic Offer poured over his roommate’s disco breaks. To push their boundaries, the band implemented the policy of more liberal sampling techniques as well as using whatever keyboard was available with the attitude of “there's no such thing as a bad synth,\" using sounds they wouldn't ordinarily use. This also includes having multi-instrumentalist Rafael Cohen’s daughter featured on their song \u003ci\u003eWhat R U Up 2day\u003c\/i\u003e and the use of horn on \u003ci\u003eR Rated Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e. Thematically, \u003ci\u003eShake The Shudder \u003c\/i\u003ereflects a band that has been together for twenty years. In the band’s early days, they had the typical punk attitude, pointing fingers at everything that’s going wrong in the world to cover up for their own inner turmoil. Now the band, older and wiser, are more comfortable with being more vulnerable, looking inwards instead of reacting outwards. To them you do this through friends, music, dancing, lovers… for \u003ci\u003eShake The Shudder\u003c\/i\u003e, the sound of protest can be a march or it can be a sick groove paired with some short shorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD - In Digi with Booklet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Double black vinyl in printed inner sleeves in wide spine outer plus Download. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP+ - Double Transparent vinyl in printed inner sleeves in wide spine outer plus Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warp","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2.","offer_id":50496335446347,"sku":"1009154","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50496334659915,"sku":"1009155","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/090fba23-9f1c-4bae-9827-473b282fe927_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727720098"},{"product_id":"wallop","title":"Wallop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWallop\u003c\/i\u003e, the band’s eighth LP, is another stellar addition to the wildly impressive catalog they’ve built over the course of nearly two decades and stands as a testament to their hardworking approach and ceaseless desire to push things further. Recorded over the past year in lead singer Nic Offer’s Brooklyn apartment, the band picks up where 2017’s \u003ci\u003eShake The Shudder\u003c\/i\u003e left off, further exploring the fringes of dance music with a focused edge and a care-free spirit. Wallop sees friends from across the spectrum appearing on a number of tracks, including Liars frontman Angus Andrew, Maria Uzor of British dance aesthetes Sink Ya Teeth, and Glasser's synth-pop wizard Cameron Mesirow, who all join Offer and !!! co-vocalist Meah Pace on this barn-burning party of a record. With an array of producers lending a hand—including Cole M.G.N. 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