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Artist: AdultEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Music Label: Thrill Jockey
Soundtracks:
- Red Herring
- The Mythology of Psychosis
- Good Deeds
- I Feel Worse When I'm with You
- The Importance of being Folk (Part I)
- Inclined to Vomit
- You Don't Worry Enough
- Cultivation
- Herd Me
- R.S.x
- Plagued by Fear
- I Should Care
- The Importance of Being Folk (Part II)
- Harvest
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Free Music Review: ADULT.: all grown up and better than ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
("Why Bother?" by Adult.)
While they may have begun their days as just another (even though they were really one of the first) in a glut of electropop revivalists, Adult. (yes, they want you to notice the ".") managed to survive the overall implosion of the electronica market, and instead of watering down their sound, they've grown wilder, more experimental, and indeed, more youthful-sounding. If this is growing up, then I say to heck with the kids! On their last album, Gimmie Trouble, they added guitarist Samuel Consiglio to the core duo of Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus, giving them a punkier, noisier edge. Consiglio is gone for this album, but the edge has remained. Many of the songs here could be synth versions of "classic" punk songs from 1977. Back in the day, of course, there actually were some punk bands using synthesizers, such as the Screamers. Well, Adult.'s new sound is way more advanced than that, using all manner of queasy, dissonant and even outright atonal effects. Think of the earlier work of such electronic rock pioneers Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, and you're on the right track. Also, there are even a couple of instrumentals here that take some cues from "serious" electronic art music, but Adult. goose it up with punk rock energy. Vocalist Kuperus has grown into an unexpectedly wild singer as well. Whereas the band's earlier efforts relied on dispassionate, electronically distorted speak-singing, Kuperus has clearly drawn inspiration from New Wave divas such as Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich (who in turn were inspired by, yes, Yoko Ono). Her dramatically swooping, sneering and hectoring style will definitely put a few "normal" folks off, but who needs 'em? Kuperus is the real American Idol, if you ask me. Besides, can you picture the vanilla likes of Carrie Underwood singing songs with titles like "I Feel Worse When I'm With You" and (best title of the decade:) "Inclined to Vomit"? While I can't say their sound is original, I can definitely report that there's no one out there remotely like them these days. Electroclash may have suffered a tragic crib death, but Adult. have not only survived, they've thrived.
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