Gimmie Trouble

1. Gimmie Trouble

2. Bad Ideas

3. Scare Up the Birds

4. Thought I Choked

5. Stranger Mistake

6. Disappoint the Youth

7. In My Nerves

8. Turn into Fever

9. Helen Bach

10. Still Waiting

11. Lovely Love

12. Seal Me In

Tracks:

Gimmie Trouble
Bad Ideas
Scare Up the Birds
Thought I Choked
Stranger Mistake
Disappoint the Youth
In My Nerves
Turn into Fever
Helen Bach
Still Waiting
Lovely Love
Seal Me In

Customer Reviews:

Electro something?.......2007-06-22

Some call it electroclash, others call it nu punk, I call it Adult. This is my first album by this band, and I like many of the songs. I wouldn't say that this is a five star album, but it certainly gets a strong ok. The music is pretty cool, and the female vocals have that punk chick vibe that makes them stand out as a truly original band. My only complaint is that after a while, some of the songs start to boar me.

Detroit has your city on lock.......2006-11-11

Like their contemporaries (Ladytron, Le Tigre), Adult. hate the word Electroclash. Hate it. In fact, they despise it so much that member Nicola Kuperus will probably turn you into a subject for her murderous "still-life" photographs if you mention it to her backstage. Or perhaps you enjoy waking to the sound of hedge clippers severing your spinal cord?

The fear of this ever-looming stigma has served the band well: Gimmie Trouble is their most thoroughly developed and fleshed-out album to date. Though Adult. still revel in their distinctive detached thoughts and nervous energy -- a combination of the behaviors you might witness from a Trekkie in the presence of Shatner or a prison yard at the sight of a female visitor -- their sound is... different. Fortunately, it's a change for the better.

The band's production -- once overtly digital, even robotic -- now drips with a fresh coat of warm organics, in part due to the presence of guitarist Sam Consiglio (until now, Adult. was Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller). Drum machines, chirping percussion and dirty synths still run rampant, but they're coupled with a decent helping of six-string guitar and barely processed bass. With this providential marriage, Adult. freely explores a broad range of dynamics, colors and songwriting techniques. For example, they open "Thought I Choked" with a slinking, non-tonal modular synth loop, and join it with an even slinkier bass guitar line and Consiglio's Bauhaus-aping four-note guitar-work. As the track develops, they modulate each of these elements into a living, growing organism, holding it in thrall with Kuperus's increasingly fevered message: "cracked and broke / you thought I choked / could happen today, not tomorrow, not Sunday at noon / not telling, not saying / I might do to you."

This brings us to another contrast with previous Adult. albums: Kuperus's vocals. Her treated monotone is all but replaced here by a dry performance style, which gives her more of an opportunity to explore her abilities as a performer. And explore she does: her technique is a survey of the history of non-singing post-punkers. Her performance ranges from operatic diva to carnival barker to cartoonish mouse to psychotic metal vixen to Mae West -- and that's over the course of a single song! Her agitation and deliberate lack of melody can be offputting, if not downright weird, and though it may never grow on you, it's captivating. She's frightening and engaging all at once -- the sort of vocalist you can't ignore.

With regards to his and Adult.'s home town, Detroit, DJ Juan Atkins once mentioned that you have to dream up your own future to escape the bleakness. Adult. have not only done this -- again -- but have now completely transcended the "E" word that so many listeners liked to force upon them. Gimmie Trouble reminds us that Adult. don't sound like anyone else... Not even themselves.

Maybe I am insane...........2006-07-04

...but I love electroclash.. Excuse me while I rant about "reviews": I read many reviews where idiots debate the value of one genre over another in the world of indie music. They like to pick on electroclash, fine, I don't care. Let them know that in a single Mozart Piano Concerto there is more musical invention and intelligence than in all of "indie rock". If you want to hear MUSIC, that is, arrangments of notes that are both complex, simple, and perfect, then choose Mozart, Bach, or Beethoven. Everyone else just wishes they were as great as those Titans of musical art. Argue all you want but Modest Mouse ONLY makes repetive 3-4 minute drivel compared to an hour long Symphony by Beethoven. Mozart probably wrote more music in a week than most modern artists write in an entire lifetime... Beethovens 9th is a Titanic work of unrivaled genius, perhaps the greatest piece of art the world has ever known...

Because of all that it bugs me to no end when I see a couple of pompous psuedo-intellectual debate the value of their favorite indie-music when in fact all of todays music compares about as well to a great Beethoven Symphony as a crayon drawing on colored paper compares to the Sistine Chapel. Debating whether the latest Modest Mouse album is better than the latest Yo La Tengo album is like debating whether a blue M&M tastes better than a red M&M. First of all its a stupid argument, second of all, they're M&M's, nobody freaking cares, enjoy them because they're tasty.

Therefore, deferring to the genius of past musical masters, I give this fine electroclash album a full 5 stars, because for what it is, its great. I would give Mozarts 25th Piano Concerto 5 stars as well. It doesn't mean they're equal or comparable, it just means they're both enjoyable.

I'm tired of seeing these pretentious morons debate the value of particular types of music all the while ignoring the fact that in light of past musical works the debate is literally pointless.

If you enjoy it, its good, period. 5 stars for Adult. because I enjoy it.

Worst album of the year!.......2006-04-26

I consider myself worldly in taste, I have followed the music scene since the late 70's. Yeah that's right, I'm a fossil. Among other bands I have followed Adult. closely and enjoyed them throughout the years. I have seen them on tour and followed the birth of other Ersatz Audio bands such as Magas and the much mentioned Tamion 12 inch. I have to say I feel this album is either a case of flattery or a lame attempt to rip off another band. I saw Tamion 12 inch open up for Adult. in Detroit and New York and they were what Adult. became. Not to mention they were playing guitars long before Adult. The vocals of Tamion's B Kerry are by far superior to Nikola's sub standard wailing. I have been in the music business for years and I know a sham when I see one. Very disappointing. Flush this one down Helen Bach's toilet!

In all honestly.......2006-01-26

Upon the first time hearing this CD, I was ready to absolutely be rid of it and sell it to a used cd store for credit. Often my method of discovery involves either researching what I buy or going strictly by the aesthetic/song descriptions of a band; this often proves frustrating, but when it works its an amazing feeling. With Adult. I was using the latter method and thus didn't research them at all...so when to my surprise the music was a very cold and distant 80's sounding synthpop, I was naturally dismayed.

Yet upon further listens I realized that no, it really wasn't quite the like crappy DIO/"irony party" music I originally wrote it off as being. For that is absolutely the farthest thing from what could possibly be said to describe them...this album is absolutely menacing in its detachment. If I were to amalgamate the impression Adult. gives me is that if you took the musical detachment of Autechre (though not with the clicks/etc) and combined it with an almost un-human female pitch, wrapped it all up with the kind of dark ambivalence that the Van Der Graaf Generator permeates almost every album of theirs (even the tormented/anguished sound of the singer in Adult. reminds me of Hammill) & were to coat it in swaths of less simmering/coked-out syth-pop rhythms of the Venetian Snares, then i'd say thats about where Adult.(with this release anyways)has landed in their sound.

A hugely dark and difficult album, but one that i'd say you should always give more than one spin.

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