Louden Up Now

They spell their name !!!, but you can call them "chik chik chik," "pow pow pow," etc. A New York-via-Florida outfit that shares members with the similarly inclined Out Hud, !!! was one of the prime instigators of the electro/post-punk revival that started gathering steam in the early 2000s. Though they've obviously listened to their share of Public Image Ltd. and A Certain Ratio (see !!! contemporaries the Rapture and Radio 4),the band leans more towards the electro/disco side of things, throwing in plenty of New Order-derived synthesizers and percolating dance beats amid the angular guitars and confrontational vocals.
Being at the epicenter of hipness at the time of LOUDEN UP NOW, !!! sees fit to lean heavily on in-your-face attitude, to the point that the album comes packaged with a second disc with the voluminous swearing deleted (these boys curse more than a gangsta rapper with Tourette's Syndrome). Given the cyclical nature of pop-culture, one couldn't help but expect a re-revival of this sound a couple of generations down the line, with !!! as one of its primary influences.