!!! have just released their latest album ‘As If’ featuring the disco odyssey Freedom! ’15, R&B tinted House track Sick Ass Moon, upbeat journey around the globe Bam City, and Ooo the a melancholy love tale set to a modern day, disco house pulse. Ooo has now been released as a video courtesy of Casper Kelly, creator of Adult Swim’s viral sensation ‘Too Many Cooks’ video. Watch the hilarious Ooo video proves that dating woes are a universal issue via YouTube below.
From Casper Kelly: “Ooo started from a feeling of a relationship teetering on the edge of breaking up or going to the next level, combined with an instrumental section in the middle with echoey sounds that evoked photon torpedoes in science fiction battles. I decided to combine the two. I also liked the idea of combining the feeling of the Star Wars cantina bar with a college mixer. I tried to make it not too story oriented but I bit more abstract – I wanted a lot of the details of what happened between the Captain and the green woman implied or submerged. Lastly, I love combining repeating visual movements with the repetition in the wonderful chorus – hence the ship getting rocked by torpedoes and people scrambling in time with the beat. It was such a thrill to shoot. I wish I could live in the world of this video.”
The band also just started their US tour and have a special surprise this time. They’ll be supported on the road by Stereolad, which is them covering Stereolab. About the idea to tour as tribute band as support on their own shows, frontman Nic Offer says “Why? Just for a kicks, for a laugh, just cuz we want to. Same reasons we’ve been !!! all along. But seriously, we like a challenge, it seemed like a fun way to press our boundaries, we like to play, it was cheaper than hiring the real Stereolab to open for us and I look fantastic in a dress. So there. That seems like enough good reasons, no?”
Tour dates:
11/17 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
11/18 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
11/19 – Washington, DC – Black Cat
11/20 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
11/21 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
11/22 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Cafe
12/1 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
12/2 Portland, OR – The Doug Fir Lounge
12/3 – Sacramento, CA – Harlows
12/4 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
12/5 – Santa Barbara, CA – SOhO Music Club
12/6 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
12/7 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
12/8 – Albuquerque, NM – Launch Pad
12/10 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s Downstairs
12/11 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada
12/12 – Austin, TX – Mohawk (outdoor stage)
