
Released in early 2013 as the lead single from THR!!!ER, !!!'s fifth album on Warp Records, 'Slyd' arrived at a moment when the dance-punk wave of the mid-2000s had matured into a more studio-polished, sample-literate sound. Conceived by the band as a tribute to sample-based club-floor classics, the track self-consciously crafted pseudo-samples to sidestep copyright clearance — a telling reflection of 2010s indie…
A key artifact of the post-dance-punk era, 'Slyd' demonstrates how bands like !!! (Chk Chk Chk) synthesized 90s house and club aesthetics with indie rock instrumentation. As the lead single from their most commercially visible Warp-era album, it documents the convergence of dance music nostalgia,…
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