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Anxiety Always
[Ersatz Audio]
Adult's long-awaited "second" first album is now released at last. Indeed, whereas "Resuscitation" was mainly a compilation of brilliant singles, "Anxiety Always" is a real album, made and recorded in one go during the second half of 2002. Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus, the married couple hiding behind Adult. (more famous since Nicola's appearance on the recent Death In Vegas and Swayzak albums), had several times underlined that they wanted to "harden" their sound for this record. But where one could have expected an even colder, rougher and above all purely electronic music, one surprisingly discovers... guitars! Turn Your Back develops an obvious electro-punk tone, with its typical bass and its Siouxsie-like plaintive voice. As for Glue Your Eyelids Together, it sounds like a Fuzzbox remake sprinkled with Adult.'s trademark deadpan humour. An obvious sense of humour that inhabits most of the tracks, like on the very good Kick in the Shin which, between sorrowful softness and humorous violence, ends the album. A rich program indeed... And the notable difference with the two tracks mentioned before, is that one is here surrounded by a totally electro universe which reminds of Kitbuilders, Adult.'s alter ego from Cologne. Besides, don't be mistaken: the duo hasn't changed their habit, for only three tracks out of ten on this album include guitars. Adult. is still Adult. and tracks like Nervous (wreck) are here to remind it. Neither retro, nor future or "no future", just "The Forgotten Sounds of Tomorrow".
Carole Jay |
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