Saturday, July 28, 2018

ADULT // THIS BEHAVIOR



Over the course of the last two decades, Detroit-based duo ADULT.(Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller) have released six albums and nineteen EPs and singles across some of our favorite labels: Mute, Ghostly International, Thrill Jockey, Clone Records, Third Man Records, and their own label, the revered Ersatz Audio.  November 1998 marked their first release: the five-song 12" “Dispassionate Furniture”. This September, twenty years later, Dais Records is proud to announce ADULT.’s seventh full length album: THIS BEHAVIOR.


The album began as 23 demos written and recorded in a remote cabin in the woods of Northern Michigan during the dead of winter. In total isolation, and with a reduced amount of gear (a modified version of their live setup) on the cabin’s kitchen table, the duo were completely immersed in an incessant inescapable studio of their own making – looping, repetitive analogue sequences grinding away day and night.  At the end of the intense demo session, a handful of peers were enlisted by the band for the difficult task of paring down the demos into the final album.

The result is 10 tracks of uncompromising dark electronics, showcasing ADULT.’s return to aggressive and energetic dancefloor mastery. Album opener “This Behavior” alongside the follow-up “Violent Shakes” (which ascends into synths wailing like warning sirens over Kuperus’s commanding vocals) set the stage for an on-edge listen, while the heartbreaking “Silent Exchange” unfolds as a beautiful sad synth dirge.  “Perversions of Humankind” breaks the mood – driving the listener into a slow and low groove before the frantic album midpoint of “Irregular Pleasure”. “Does The Body Know?” is the album’s post-punk anthem, with irresistible singalong “we’re out of order – we’re undefined!” The latter half of the album drives forward with “On The Edge (You Put Me…)” and “Lick Out The Content”, refusing rest and demanding movement and response. “Everything & Nothing” emerges slowly from sparkling synth textures, snowballing with nervous energy into an acid techno stomper before the album comes to a close on the icy landscape of “In All The Debris”, a goose-bump inducing slow electronic mantra that closes the curtain on a massive album.














Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Primitive Weapons // Keep The Lights On


  

PRIMITIVE WEAPONS on TOUR

7/29 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live!
7/31 – Boston, MA @ Royale
8/01 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
8/02 – Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont Theater
8/03 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel



Tuesday, July 24, 2018

[EVENT] HOPELESS LINGERIE X Passionfruit The Sensuality Shop // The Avalon Collection


The Avalon Collection 

An exclusive collaboration with Hopeless Lingerie.

VENUE: 
Passionfruit The Sensuality Shop - 404 Bridge Rd Richmond
DATE: 
Saturday September 1st 2018
TIME:
7.00pm - 10.00pm.

WHAT TO EXPECT
Introducing AVALON - exclusive to Passionfruit signature collection by Melbourne label Hopeless Lingerie in decadent Emerald Green
 Meet Hopeless Lingerie designer Gabrielle Adamidis
Shibari demonstrations with Avalon and Jenna
New and exclusive Emerald Green Fraulein Kink collection.
Q&A with our in-house Dominatrix, Anne O Nomis, author of History & Arts of the Dominatrix in The Education Salon
Sex Ed tutorials with Euphemia of I Wish You Knew
15% off all toys
A visual feast with blooms provided by The Handsome Bloom
Goodie bags, prizes and refreshments
"If they cannot find the way to Avalon, it is a sign, perhaps, that they are not ready."
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

THINGS TO KNOW
Tickets are $15.00 and redeemable with purchase 


SHADES OF SILENCE // SS18


















































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Iron Sight // To You Who Broke My Heart [IOD]




Iron Sight’s music crosses territory between dystopian sci-fi futurism and biblical eschatology, perhaps the same event, the end of the Uroburos’ tail; mechanical percussion hits anchor drones that evoke Albrecht Durer’s vision of The Four Horsemen, bristling synths audibly resemble locust drones descending upon rotting fields, a voice made from barbed wire emerges from a storm of reverb.


This record, as the title suggests focuses on the trauma of a broken heart, bodies longed for are dissected and reconstructed, the minimal composition of the tracks allows cinematic spaces to unfold, constructing the scaffolding for a descent into obsession, mania and the annihilation of memory.


credits

released July 19, 2018


All music written and mixed by Isak Hansen.
Mastering by Jesper Bagger Hviid.










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