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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