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As If (album)

2015 studio album by !!!

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ20899392 ↗
Source-derived summary

As If is the sixth studio album by American dance-punk group !!!, released on October 16, 2015, on Warp Records.

Singles

Three official singles were released from As If. "All U Writers", featuring vocals from Teresa Eggers, released 28 April 2015. "Freedom '15" released 30 July 2015, featuring vocals from Yolanda Harris Dancy and Taletha Manor; a lyric video was uploaded 20 August 2015. The third single from the album, "Bam City", was released 30 September 2015, with an accompanying music video. "Ooo" was released with an accompanying music video on November 16, 2015.

One promotional single was released from As If: "Sick Ass Moon", an "R&B-tinted house track", released with "Freedom '15" on 30 July 2015.

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“As If (album)” enters the record as 2015 studio album by . Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what album and studio can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around album and studio.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20899392. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “As If (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.