"Dancing Is the Best Revenge" Released: May 3, 2017
Shake the Shudder is the seventh studio album by American dance-punk group !!!, released on May 19, 2017, on Warp Records. The band described the album as a "fancy way of saying 'shake it off and dance your cares away.'"[1]
Shake the Shudder was met with mixed to positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album has received an average score of 64, indicating "generally favorable reviews", based on 12 reviews.[2] Stuart Berman of Pitchfork said that !!! "[have not] lost their flair for infusing peak-hour hysterics with sobering morning-after rumination."[7] However, in a far more critical review, Josh Gray of Clash described the album as "a terrible party bag: previous experience suggests that it should be full to the brim with party-poppers, balloons and dangerously sugary sweets but, in reality, all it contains is a few loose crayons and a small bar of vegan chocolate."