3OH!3

Want in 2008 brought the pair to a wider audience, with “Don’t Trust Me” supplying the defining introduction. The track moved between electronic impact and a deliberately outsized performance, turning a provocative refrain into its main rhythmic event. The appeal was as much about delivery as production. The voices sounded like people egging each other on, making the song feel more unruly than its tightly arranged structure.

“Starstrukk” offered another version of the same energy, with the later Katy Perry collaboration pushing the call-and-response character further. A 3OH!3 song rarely hides its construction: the keyboard figure is obvious, the beat makes its entrance clearly and the hook announces itself. That directness suited a musical moment in which club production, pop-punk audiences and internet-driven discovery were colliding in increasingly noisy ways.

Streets of Gold in 2010 widened the production frame. “My First Kiss”, featuring Kesha, gave the duo another sharp exchange of voices, while the album explored how much variety could exist inside their recognisable electronic-pop setting. Their humour could be abrasive, but the songwriting relied on concise rhythmic ideas and contrasts in vocal texture rather than a constant accumulation of unrelated effects.

Omens and Night Sports later returned to that vocabulary from different positions. The strongest reason to revisit the catalogue is the speed of its musical decisions. A small phrase becomes a hook almost immediately; a beat changes just enough to make the next entrance effective. 3OH!3 turned that impatience into an identity, with the personality of the performers keeping the large production from sounding entirely mechanical.