Album: !!!, Strange Weather, Isn't It? (Warp)

Ah, the hubris of the early Noughties, when punk-funk revivalists were so confident the moment was theirs they didn't even bother having proper names.

!!! ("chk-chk-chk") were always a bit of a poor man's LCD Soundsystem, so it comes as a shock to find they've matured enough to deliver a record like Strange Weather, on which synths wash prettily over Nic Offer's worldly widsom, delivered in a Gil Scott-Heron drawl. For a band you'd completely forgotten about, it's surprisingly memorable.