What's The Story?
!!! (pronounced "chk chk chk") are a raucous dance-punk band from Sacramento. Steady As The Sidewalk Cracks is from 2010's Strange Weather, Isn't It?
Who's To Blame?
One of the few locally owned/operated record stores left on Earth.
Why ♥ It?
!!! are pretty hard to empirically quantify. The aforementioned record store had them listed as electronic, Last.fm calls them dance-punk. Whatever your flavor, this tune is a great showcase of what they bring to the table.
The verse has a constantly moving vibe, but keys and percussion alike seem an underwater afterthought. This is clearly intentional, as the first chorus seems to breach the surface of this mood; the processed drums and keys during the verse are left raw, and the bass kicks in with a groovy edge. Catchy. As. Balls.
As the song keeps moving, the vocals and drums are now more real, and make the rest of the tune all the more rockin'. Also featured is an elongated horn solo that somehow fits perfectly in an electronic dance rock song. It's breaks like these from either convention or common sense that makes this song and this band so attractive as well as hard to pin down genre-wise.
Regardless, you can dance your face off to it, so who cares about all that other stuff?
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