Just when I’d begun to worry that they’d beheaded themselves like they did Sam Consiglio, the Detroit noise-punk duo ADULT. (beloved here at Res for the way they’ve eschewed any sort of electronic pop trend while continuing to hammer out literate, dark, anxiously jittery tech-punk) release what can only be described as the best news for lovers of the uncomfortable and disconcerting ever: ADULT. have moved into film.
From an email update (also posted at the ADULT. homepage) today:
Part I
ADULT. will be premiering their new silent-experimental-short
-horror film DECAMPMENT May 9, 2008 at 7:00pm and 8:30pm at the Detroit Institute of Arts accompanied by their own peculiar electronic horror music especially scored for the film. DECAMPMENT was written, produced and directed by ADULT. in early 2008 and follows a women’s transmigration from her “normal” life into a new society of deceit. Filmed entirely in Michigan, DECAMPMENT explores ADULT.’s obsession with an often overlooked and distinctive aesthetic that they call “midwestern horror”. The all new soundtrack will be performed live by ADULT. during the screening of the film and will be a mutation of instrumental film music and more ADULT.-like irregularities.
But wait…there’s more:
PART II
ADULT. will be releasing their first new release in over a year. The DECAMPMENT TRILOGY is an extremely limited 7″ series to be released on ERSATZ AUDIO. Three 7″s -each strictly limited to 100 copies- will tell the story of DECAMPMENT through music, lyrics and photographs. Each hand numbered 7″ will come in a full color jacket along with a limited 16″ x 20″ photographic print from Nicola Kuperus signed and numbered. Collect the entire 7″ trilogy to piece together the narrative of DECAMPMENT, plus own the limited edition 7″s and the Kuperus Triptych available ONLY through the ADULT. website. One 7″ will be released each month starting May 13th. More info coming soon concerning this project.
If you’re unfamiliar with the gorgeous(ly unsettling) artistic/photographic work of Nicola Kuperus, you need only tour through her online album at the ADULT. site.
This news makes requisite the (long-overdue) posting of my favorite ADULT. song (barely edging out “Disappoint The Youth”), from 2006’s Why Bother?:
ADULT.: You Don’t Worry Enough
And now, begin making plans for Detroit. And take me. If I don’t get to witness this merge of ADULT. nausea-noise on screen, well, in the words of Nicola herself, I’m just suggesting that something undesirable is likely to happen.
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