ADULT. Stream ‘The Way Things Fall’ LP On Fader
The electronic duo play UK and European shows from next week
“Grim, stripped-bare techno, razor-sharp synth-pop, and snarling electro-punk…It’s terrifically conceived and even more terrifically crafted, the sort of record so perfect in its own aims that parsing out influences or agendas seems a fool’s game. These tracks, this duo, this entity that is Adult.: they’re a great and interesting thing, this nation’s best inducers of head-banging, high-speed driving, amazed chuckles, and giddy bedroom shout.” Pitchfork
“Itchy gothic synthcore…Detroit’s eeriest, scariest, plain witchiest couple…Compressing the sound of gothic cathedral symphonics into the frame of a stuttering, cobwebbed Casio, Millar ratchets up the disco glitch into a ferociously minimal, hyper-tense techno rush.” NME
“Sterile, synth-soaked productions.” XLR8R
“Like snorting Paxil-laced Adderall off a Fad Gadget lithograph, Adult. is cathartic cabaret for the sketched out…The gnarled vignettes aim to alienate, which only further endears core fans, whether electro heads, electroclash survivors or no-wave fetishists.” URB
Seminal Detroit electronic duo ADULT. are due to release their fifth album, ‘The Way Things Fall’, next Monday 13th May via Ghostly International in the UK and Europe. The exclusive stream of the full record is up now on Fader.
Stream ‘The Way Things Fall’ here:
Fader writes “what’s surprising about the wonky synth lines and smiting, deadpan vocals on their excellent return to the studio, The Way Things Fall, is very fresh and how of-the-moment they sound, like something you might hear at a fog-machine-filled cold wave party today, only with an emphasis on clarity of form, instead of hazy subterfuge.” Continuing with the song ‘Tonight, We Fall’, Fader hails it as an “infectious, deftly textural track,” and one that capitalizes on Nicola Kuperus’ gothy, compelling vocals.
The duo are also bringing their memorable live show to select UK and European cities from next week, including London’s XOYO on Wednesday 15th May. Full details are below of the four-date European run.
Additionally ADULT. recently shared somewhat of an urgent Public Service Announcement, one that addresses the dire need to properly spell their name correctly, inflecting a doubly serious and humorous take on the matter.
Watch ADULT.’s Public Service Announcement here:
BULLETT called first single ‘Idle (Second Thoughts)’ the epitome of the intersection between “electronic elements with a sharper punk edge…it’s a living, breathing concoction of analog instrumentation and electronic aesthetic, with a minimal diffidence that pushes and pulls.” Electronic Musician describes the record as “stripped of ratty bass panic attacks and atonal splatter, consonant arrangements and blanched analogue melodies manifest in wraithlike contortions.”
Stream ‘Idle (Second Thoughts)’:
ADULT. live dates
15.05.13 London @ XOYO with Light Asylum – get tickets
16.05.13 Berlin @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
18.05.13 Brussels @ Magasin 4
20.05.13 Amsterdam, NL @ Indiestad
Pre-Order ‘The Way Things Fall’ From The Ghostly Store , Rough Trade or iTunes
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