THR!!!ER

!!! - THR!!!ER
Critic Score
Based on 19 reviews
2013 Ratings: #520 / 1115
User Score
Based on 89 ratings
2013 Rank: #353
Liked by 6 people
April 30, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Warp / Label
Dance-Punk / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
AllMusic

The new looseness that runs through the grooves, the variety the additional voices bring, the very strong songs, and Eno' perfect production all add up as the album plays, and as a result, Thr!!!ler ranks as the band's best work to date.

80
PopMatters

Goofy and smart in all the right ways, !!! has crafted a record that just puts a big, gaping smile on one’s face and feet a’ shufflin’.

80
No Ripcord

Bottom line, this is a fun, solid output from !!!; a highly enjoyable trip with full cohesion, no true blunders, and at least three standouts on an album with only nine tracks.

75
A.V. Club

Mostly it’s a passable dance hybrid climbing out of the underground and inching toward the mainstream, one wink at a time.

72
Paste

It’s a monster of a dance-punk record, and a fine addition to the !!! canon.

70
DIY

It’s an album which sees the band taking new sounds and crafting songs in new ways. But this tightness and restraint is sometimes to the detriment of the songs. 

65
Under the Radar

Rather than opting for an exhilarating sonic adventure, Thr!!!er defaults on ass-slapping, mindless tunes. While the results are at times scintillating, it often feels like a thriller without quite enough killer. 

60
Consequence of Sound

The record treads too close to James Murphy’s six-year-old footprints. Existential nu-disco hasn’t been done to death, but it has been done better than this.

60
Pitchfork

For all of Thr!!!er’s reliable pleasures, the requisite cover-image riff on the triple-bang logo is the boldest idea here, which makes for an awfully modest record to hold up against the pop-canon cornerstone for which it was named.

60
musicOMH

THR!!!ER has plenty of moments that live up to its self-hyped billing, but it’s the love of the gimmick, that old friend Shtick Shtick Shtick, that will always be the thing that both endears and estranges.

60
Drowned in Sound

The strongest moments on here are those which are most confident to leap into uncharted waters, as well as those which are equally confident to draw on established strengths.

Hexo
78

Enjoyable and fun

i3su
70

Pretty fun, I enjoyed it :)

Deft
62

This is like Franz Ferdinand x Chromeo x Beck. Which sounds like it could be a very inspired and wacky album. At points it is, the grooves are quite danceable and the vocal inflections are quite swanky. Other times, the music just feels like wallflower filler. It’s an okay dance-punk experience.

Also this band had one of the most annoying bands to search up for a long time. How does !!! = Chk Chk Chk??

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Added on: January 29, 2013