In September, Adult DVD will be releasing their self-titled debut LP on Fat Possum Records. The Leeds-based sextet have become one of the most talked-about live bands in the UK over the last couple of years, playing festivals like Glastonbury, Green Man, End Of The Road, on the strength of their early EPs. Their momentum has continued gathering behind the band since the announce of their signing to Fat Possum, with the band making their US debut at SXSW earlier this year where they were hailed as one of the best bands of the festival. The band followed that up by touring Japan where they were greeted by fans in homemade Adult DVD merch, played a series of sold-out shows and saw posts about their performances go viral with millions of views.
The band announced their record with the single “Cowboy On Aisle Three” last month, that Stereogum described as “a deranged banger….[that] explodes with DFA-indebted infectiousness.” Today, Adult DVD are back to share a new preview of the album, a track called “Rolling Face,” an acid house exploration of a wild night out that ends with its main character out of his mind.
Singer Harry Hanson says of the track:
“A job in a suit can only get you so far, which is what the character from rolling face soon realizes, he’s at the deep end of a pretty ugly night out, which ends in him losing his mind and money.”
In the making of their exhilarating debut album, vocalist Harry Hanson and synth-player Greg Lonsdale, alongside Danny Blackburn (guitar/synth), Jake Williams (synth), Jonathan Newell (drums), and George Manson (bass), went harder on what was already working for them: witty observational songwriting based in real-life characters and a pulsating synth-punk sound perfect for both the rave and the mosh pit. Fusing together an intense musical workout with depictions of a motley crew of figures ranging from 5G conspiracy theorists to an existential cowboy, Adult DVD is the electrifying sound of a band exceeding their own expectations while going just as hard, if not harder than their adrenaline-fueled live shows.
Produced by the band at The Nave Studios Leeds , the general theme of the album is to let go and take life a little less seriously. Simmering with boredom, wasted time, scams and a preoccupation with death and sex, the Adult DVD universe is a place to escape to and also get lost. These are songs that untangle the complicated ways in which people find themselves living, mining both laughter and energy from thinking. “There isn’t that much down time on the album,” Hanson says in reference to its pulsating energy and high BPM count. “It’s got harder in both directions. It’s like the EPs but on steroids.”
Keep your mind open.
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[Thanks to Tom at Terrorbird Media.]
