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Apr 29, 2013The 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. That also makes it one of the best modern dance punk records to date, right up there with LCD Soundsystem's best.
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Apr 26, 2013THR!!!LER is a significantly more organic record, one where picturing the band having the time of their lives bashing it out in a practice space requires no effort at all.
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May 9, 2013Bottom 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.
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Apr 30, 2013There are a couple of strutting blues-rock winners, a couple affected synth-rock stinkers, but most of the rest, like the infections “One Girl/One Boy,” flash new-wavy funk moves reminiscent of late Chic, early Prince, and prime Rick James.
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Apr 29, 2013Goofy 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’.
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Apr 26, 2013On THR!!!ER, !!! have finally found a happy medium between playful and goofy, epic and bloated, tongue-in-cheek and just plain chic.
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May 22, 2013Jim Eno wound them up and let them go to conjure the showy (“One Girl/One Boy”), the chatty (“Fine Fine Fine”), the high hippie-ish (“Californiyeah”) and mostly the buoyantly oddball without losing track of the band’s tense rhythms, nervous songcraft and all around raw silken soul.
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Apr 30, 2013A groove-heavy cool-club record that never takes on more than it can handle.
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Apr 30, 2013Whether the solidity the band endeavored to create is evident amongst the aural planes of Thr!!!er is debatable. Either way, it’s a monster of a dance-punk record, and a fine addition to the !!! canon.
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Apr 26, 2013Thr!!!er hits with a fresh, single-minded purpose.
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Alternative PressApr 25, 2013Thr!!!er is a party for sure, but you';; never really feel it unless you and 200 of your best friends are listening to it in an airplane hanger at 110 db. [May 2013, p.84]
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UncutApr 25, 2013Recording session helmed by Spoon drummer Jim Eno drew the band out of their comfort zone, with generally positive results. [May 2013, p.65]
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Apr 25, 2013It’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.
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Apr 30, 2013THR!!!ER is a remarkably fluid album, transitioning seamlessly between songs and only rarely getting mired in moments of subpar music.
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Under The RadarApr 25, 2013While the results are at times scintillating, it often feels like a thriller without quite enough killer. [Apr-May 2013, p.90]
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MojoMay 20, 2013The results are slightly uneven. [Jun 2013, p.89]
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Q MagazineMay 13, 2013Their fifth album is more about the song and less groove-based than their previous output. [Jun 2013, p.90]
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MagnetMay 10, 2013There's no real depth allowed in the themes, of course, and it bears no small resemblance to most other post-LCD Soundsystem fare. But it's beyond pointless to fault another person's idea of goodtime music. [No. 98, p.52]
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Apr 30, 2013Existential nu-disco hasn’t been done to death, but it has been done better than this.
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Apr 30, 2013For 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.
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Apr 29, 2013It's still party music, but for a different kind of party.
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Apr 29, 2013THR!!!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.
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Apr 25, 2013The results, in this still-formative period of their development, have been predictably mixed.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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