!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - 'The One 2'

What this video is

Released in March 2017 as the lead single and album opener for '!!!'s seventh studio album 'Shake the Shudder' (Warp Records, May 19 2017), 'The One 2' arrives at a moment when the band — formed in Sacramento in 1996 and now long-established in New York City — had reached a point of stylistic consolidation within the dance-punk and indie-disco tradition they helped pioneer in the early 2000s alongside the DFA…

Why it matters

!!! are foundational figures in the dance-punk movement, and 'The One 2' represents their 2017-era synthesis of disco, funk, and indie-dance. The video's near-static, near-real-time performance format is a direct cultural artefact of how mid-budget underground acts in the Warp Records ecosystem…