Description
2024 reissue, 12″ EP, Clone.
Remastered and reissued with new a new album cover via the Clone West Coast Series, Adult’s ‘New Phonies’ EP first appeared in 2000 as the duo moniker of Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, two legit electro stalwarts. This is a proper snappy electro EP – of the least sympathetic and most coldly calculating kind – evoking the fright of becoming trapped inside an inescapable subliminal-sonic cybernetic feedback loop, with all human faculties thrown to the wayside. ‘Hand To Phone’, for example, locks us into a communicative-cybernetic stasis, with spitty acid 16ths betraying the mood of becoming affective chasers of electromagnetic signals, unwittingly carrying out the bidding of our new techno-evangelist overlords. The A-sider ‘New Object’, meanwhile, with its sizzling 808s, transitional fluctuations and hip-hop vocal refrain – “I need you to accommodate my comunication needs” – touches on several layers of objectification at once: sexual, commodification, loss of the ability to speak. Adult truly dealt with adult themes and embraced their recapture into the machine – now you too can own their New Object.
