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Over the course of the last two decades, Detroit-based duo ADULT.(Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller) have released six albums and
nineteen EPs and singles across some of our favorite labels: Mute,
Ghostly International, Thrill Jockey, Clone Records, Third Man Records,
and their own label, the revered Ersatz Audio. November 1998 marked
their first release: the five-song 12” “Dispassionate Furniture”. This
September, twenty years later, Dais Records is proud to announce
ADULT.’s seventh full length album: THIS BEHAVIOR.
The album began as 23 demos written and recorded in a remote cabin in
the woods of Northern Michigan during the dead of winter. In total
isolation, and with a reduced amount of gear (a modified version of
their live setup) on the cabin’s kitchen table, the duo were completely
immersed in an incessant inescapable studio of their own making –
looping, repetitive analogue sequences grinding away day and night. At
the end of the intense demo session, a handful of peers were enlisted by
the band for the difficult task of paring down the demos into the final
album.
The result is 10 tracks of uncompromising dark electronics,
showcasing ADULT.’s return to aggressive and energetic dancefloor
mastery. Album opener “This Behavior” alongside the follow-up “Violent
Shakes” (which ascends into synths wailing like warning sirens over
Kuperus’s commanding vocals) set the stage for an on-edge listen, while
the heartbreaking “Silent Exchange” unfolds as a beautiful sad synth
dirge. “Perversions of Humankind” breaks the mood – driving the
listener into a slow and low groove before the frantic album midpoint of
“Irregular Pleasure”. “Does The Body Know?” is the album’s post-punk
anthem, with irresistible singalong “we’re out of order – we’re
undefined!” The latter half of the album drives forward with “On The
Edge (You Put Me…)” and “Lick Out The Content”, refusing rest and
demanding movement and response. “Everything & Nothing” emerges
slowly from sparkling synth textures, snowballing with nervous energy
into an acid techno stomper before the album comes to a close on the icy
landscape of “In All The Debris”, a goose-bump inducing slow electronic
mantra that closes the curtain on a massive album.
Dais Records is proud to present ADULT.’s THIS BEHAVIOR. Available on
digital, digipack CD, and vinyl LP in stores 9/7, with exclusive
limited vinyl colorways for UK & Europe.
Artist statement on the album’s writing process:
“It’s confounding how often we negate the importance of
disconnecting, getting weird, getting lost. Discomfort and joy
intertwined. Day to day, theatrical self-presentation set to rest in our
frantic social world. Public becomes private, almost too private.
Looking out into frozen woods as you deliver your vocals. For who? For
what? Taking walks along icy shorelines as you try to overcome writer’s
block, as you try to overcome yourself. Not seeing anyone for days and
weeks on end. Overwhelming thoughts and feelings come rushing in;
anxiety, fear, purpose, banality, futility of task, power structures,
power struggles, pointlessness, collapse. You’re faced to face yourself.
Your awareness is heightened. You are neither here nor there. You are
in a liminal state. As you work in this isolated cabin your windows
become mirrors.”
“Are we distortions. Are we distortions, perversions of humankind.
Are we distortions. Are we distortions, twisted somewhere in time.”
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