Give a round of applause for The Chats.

The dropkick punk trio are releasing their first full-length album, called High Risk Behaviour, and shared a new single about getting an STI, which is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect from The Chats.

Premiered on triple j Good Nights, 'The Clap' is a spiky, no-nonsense 90 seconds of oversharing with guitarist Pricey on vocals (subbing in for mulleted singer-bassist Eamon).

Like 'Identity Theft' and 'Pub Feed' before it, there's a lo-fi situational music video, too, directed by Matt Weston. Watch/listen below.

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Arriving via the band's own label, Bargain Bin Records, The Chats' debut album, High Risk Behaviour, won't mess with the band's formula. It's 14 tracks clocking in at under 28 minutes.

"I don’t want to make the songs boring, so I just keep them short and sweet," Eamon Sandwith said of the record. "We try not to think about it or complicate it too much. You don’t want to force it or the song’s going to turn out crap."

"Some of the songs were first-take and we were like, ‘That’s good, whatever'... We’re really not perfectionists."

Recorded during visits to the Geelong studio of engineer Billy Gardner, the album is out 27 March (view the zero-budget artwork and tracklist below), neatly timed after the group's tour with Laneway Festival and before jetting to the US to play Coachella for the first time.

There's nothing fake about The Chats "We’re just three dudes that fell into this... and we’re not gonna f*ck it up"

It's been a wild few years for the band. A year after forming in the coastal town of Coolum, the trio made a splash in 2017 with viral hit 'Smoko', making unlikely fans outta Miguel, Arctic Monkeys, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme.

Homme handpicked the trio to open Queens of the Stone Age's 2018 Australian tour, and introduced them to Iggy Pop, who requested they join him on a 2019 Australian tour.



"We just never thought that this would ever happen, we never thought that we’d be travelling the world playing for everyone," the band told triple j's Declan Byrne back in August. "We’re just three dudes that fell into this and we see that we’ve been given a great opportunity and we’re not gonna f*ck it up”.

High Risk Behaviour is out 27 March via Bargain Bin Records.

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1. Stinker

2. Drunk N Disorderly

3. The Clap

4. Identity Theft

5. Guns

6. Dine N Dash

7. Keep The Grubs Out

8. Pub Feed

9. Ross River

10. Heatstroke

11. Billy Backwash's Day

12. 4573

13. Do What I Want

14. Better Than You