!!! by Tim Saccenti
!!! are building up to their ninth studio album.
Here’s What I Need To Know, the new track from !!!’s forthcoming LP Let It Be Blue, is a song about, ‘the moment when you know a relationship is finished’, according to the band:
“Either because you’re over it, or you realise the other person is. It’s about how all the details of those moments, like an Aaliyah song on the radio or watching snow fall through a window, become imprinted in your memory as well.”
“Musically, the first half builds using arpeggiated synths, trance stabs and layers of percussion. For the second half, we sampled a small bit of the end of the chorus, the last two chords and the word ‘over’ to create a loop.”
“Then, like in a French Touch song, we used that loop as the basis for the full beat that comes in to end the song and provide some release.”
There’s another packed cast of collaborators on a record which will have had plenty of time to breathe out on the road once it’s released on May 6th.
