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Gimme my money back.......

greg | detroit | 12/16/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"This album does nothing but borrow from obvious sources and does not manage to do so with any originality. New guitarist, Samuel Consiglio was a member of Tamion 12 inch, another band on the Adult. run label Ersatz Audio.Tamion released an album last year called Let's Suffer and is by far a better listen and a good reference point for where Adult's so-called 'new' direction came from. Nicola Kuperus' new vocal style is a lame imitation of Tamion 12 inch vocalist Kerry Biernot/B kerry. Save your money & check out Les Georges Leningrad or other bands on the Ersatz Audio website."

Best album yet

alexander laurence | Los Angeles, CA | 10/18/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Adult. is one of the most interesting bands on the planet. They started their own label ten years ago. They created music that was uncompromising. Music by John Foxx and Tuxedomoon influenced their early records. They tour with trendy bands like The Faint. They ended up collaborating with Death in Vegas, and creating an international interest. Somehow a few years ago they got lumped in the Electroclash thing. After a few years of being unsatisfied with that they signed with a new label and set upon doing a new sort of music. They gained one more member in the band. Sam Consiglio was in the band Tamion. So it was a trio. They were at least 33% coming from a new place. Now they actually had guitars. A little listen to this new record confirms that this band has nothing to do with Electroclash and any trendy retro revival. The record does recall the No Wave scene and early LA punk. The songs are intricate and complex. Adult. Has become more able with three members. From their early days where they hardly played anything live to now, it is remarkable. Their live show is dynamic. This is their most together album. It is meant to be listened to as a whole. This is a band that is taking risks. It is an amazing journey."

In all honestly

Hoichi, the Earless | Sietch Tabr, Arrakis | 01/26/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Upon the first time hearing this CD, I was ready to absolutely be rid of it and sell it to a used cd store for credit. Often my method of discovery involves either researching what I buy or going strictly by the aesthetic/song descriptions of a band; this often proves frustrating, but when it works its an amazing feeling. With Adult. I was using the latter method and thus didn't research them at all...so when to my surprise the music was a very cold and distant 80's sounding synthpop, I was naturally dismayed.



Yet upon further listens I realized that no, it really wasn't quite the like crappy Devo/"irony party" music I originally wrote it off as being. For that is absolutely the farthest thing from what could possibly be said to describe them...this album is absolutely menacing in its detachment. If I were to amalgamate the impression Adult. gives me is that if you took the musical detachment of Autechre (though not with the clicks/etc) and combined it with an almost un-human female pitch, wrapped it all up with the kind of dark ambivalence that the Van Der Graaf Generator permeates almost every album of theirs (even the tormented/anguished sound of the singer in Adult. reminds me of Hammill) & were to coat it in swaths of less simmering/coked-out syth-pop rhythms of the Venetian Snares, then i'd say thats about where Adult.(with this release anyways)has landed in their sound.



A hugely dark and difficult album, but one that i'd say you should always give more than one spin."