ADULT. To Reissue Resuscitation And Release a 7" Single of Cover(s)
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"We've wanted to re-release this album [Resuscitation] for some time," says ADULT.'s Adam Lee Miller, "but we weren't ready until now. We have some new material in the pipeline, and we thought this would be a nice way to reintroduce ourselves."
It is indeed a nice way for the hugely respected Detroit duo to herald their return to the world of music, especially for anyone who missed out on Resuscitation the first time around — the album's never been available digitally, and the CD version has been out of print for some years now. The reissue thus presents the chance to own one of the more influential records of the early 2000s: either on double LP or, for the first time, as a digital release. Both versions come with four digital bonus tracks from the Resusciation era. Both releases can be pre-ordered now at The Ghostly Store exclusively. FACT Magazine shared the news yesterday.
The world last heard from Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller on their Let's Feel Bad Together EP, which dropped in 2008. Since then, they've been as busy as ever, but it's been with audio/visual projects, rather than recorded music — they spent the period 2008-2010 making the Three Grace(s) triptych, a 113-minute horror film trilogy that's been to film festivals as far away as Mexico City.
The new material mentioned comes in the way of two cover songs availbale as a 7" and/or digitally November 6th titled Shari Vari / 122 Hours of Fear. Their choice of the two covers that mark their return to recorded music are significant ones. "122 Hours of Fear," originally by The Screamers, sounds like it could have walked straight off the soundtrack to their own horror movie. "The Screamers are a major influence for us," Miller says, "and we first performed the song in February, at our first live show in two years."
Iconic Detroit techno track "Shari Vari," meanwhile, provides a link to the band's past, as well as to their city's cultural heritage — it was originally by Sterling Jones and Paul Lesley, aka A Number of Names, and as Miller says, " we remixed it in 2001, [but] we were never satisfied with our remix, so we decided it would be fun to approach it as a cover and see if we could figure it out better." The results rather speak for themselves, with Kuperus' vocals replacing the icy detachment of the original with a style that's both playful and mildly ominous.
Welcome back, ADULT.
MORE ABOUT RESUSCITATION
When it first dropped in 2001, Resuscitation served as a de facto introduction to the duo, collecting a bunch of songs on CD that had only previously been available on hard-to-find singles and EPs. Eleven years later, it does the same thing, except this time around, we can see just how influential its creators' work has been — and ADULT.'s music only sounds more remarkable with the benefit of hindsight.
At the time, Resuscitation's combination of crisp beats, squelch-laden synths and Nicola Kuperus' detached monotone sounded like a broadcast from the future, steeped in the analog synth sounds of forebears like Kraftwerk but possessed of an ultramodern sheen all its own. The duo's visual aesthetic was just as important — Kuperus' photography adorned all their album packaging (including this re-release), and their live shows drew on a sense of what a reviewer once called "detached intrigue."
Echoes of ADULT.'s aesthetic can be heard today in everything from today's surfeit of analog synth-toting minimal wave bands to the highly stylized divas who dominate the pop charts. But really, in 2012 Resuscitation still sounds like no-one else. With new material on the horizon — starting with a double A-side cover version single, due out November 6th — it's time to fall in love with ADULT. all over again. And this is the place to start.
7" Tracklist:
A. Shari Vari
B. 122 Hours of Fear
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Rescuscitation 2xLP* Tracklist:
A1. Lost Love
A2. Hand To Phone (Cordless Mix)
A3. Minors At Nite (Still Sick)
B1. New Object (Edit)
B2. Contagious
B3. Mouth To Mouth
B4. Nausea (Restructured)
C1. Pressure Suit
C2. Dispassionate Furniture (Reupholstered)
C3. Human Wreck (Radio Edit)
D1. Side-Swiped (Extended Mix)
D2. Your Lies
D3. Skinlike (Equation Mix)
* Includes 4 additional bonus tracks never before released
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