!!! Share Silly "Ooo" Video Directed by "Too Many Cooks" Creator Casper Kelly

!!! have shared a new video for As If track “Ooo”. It’s directed by Casper Kelly, who was behind Adult Swim’s “Too Many Cooks” video. The sci-fi-themed clip sees band frontman Nic Offer singing and dancing in hologram form in a futuristic bar. An intergalactic space battle ensues. Watch it below. In other !!! news, the band just announced the opening act for their forthcoming tour will be !!! themselves, performing as a Stereolab tribute act called Stereolad. Below, check out the dates and see Stereolad’s new press shot.

In a statement about the video, Kelly said:

“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.

Speaking about the decision to open their own shows, Nic Offer said, “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?”

Here’s that Stereolad press shot.

!!!:

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
12-01 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
12-02 Portland, OR – The Doug Fir Lounge
12-03 Sacramento, CA – Harlows
12-04 San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
12-05 Santa Barbara, CA – SOhO Music Club
12-06 Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
12-07 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
12-08 Albuquerque, NM – Launch Pad
12-10 Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s Downstairs
12-11 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
12-12 Austin, TX – Mohawk (outdoor stage)

Watch !!! in an episode of Pitchfork.tv’s “+1″:

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