At last, ADULT. gets its own thread

"this band has a terrific excuse: So long as no one else is willing to go quite this far out on a limb, it's not like you can say some other group is doing it better."

Sure, but when you already have 'Juju', 'Mask' and 'No Tears', what exactly is the point of this?

I was listening to the singles CD again the other day and really enjoying it.

Baaderonixx, our tastes seem to overlapping something crazy at the moment.

they now have "live instrumentation".

So Resuscitation has been reissued. It's still great.

Glad to hear this! That album is beyond classic and that whole period of artists rehashing electro was totes fun. Electroclash revival by the end of the decade...bank on it.

Are they still around? these guys were great but they completely lost me halfway through. I wonder if they attracted new fans after they changed their sound

They just released a new 7" which you can hear both sides of here (legit record label stream):
http://soundcloud.com/ghostly/sets/adult-shari-vari-122-hours
http://ghostly.com/releases/shari-vari-122-hours-of-fear

A pointless and shrill/bludgeoning cover of Sharevari is not really what I wanted from these guys, but there it is.

I thought 'Why Bother?' ruled hard and apparently so did Kenan but fuck if I know anyone else who did

God, I love that album so much! I didn't realize it was OOP, I bought mine in high school maybe 8 years ago and it's been one of my favorites since. I just dug it back out maybe 6 months ago and my musically-picky boyfriend was super into it.

A pointless and shrill/bludgeoning cover of Sharevari is not really what I wanted from these guys, but there it is.

likewise, but the screamers cover is something i did want.

I like them both; the idea of a "Shari Vari"/"122 Hours of Fear" cover 7" is kind of like a dream to me

I thought 'Why Bother?' ruled hard

Still think so.

Resuscitation is a comp tho, right?

Yeah, of tracks from (but iirc not the entirety of) a bunch of old singles and EPs.

Do you guys like Le Car too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgcdPapl5vc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IMWxOPxfPY

Cosign on liking the Screamers cover (it's a surprisingly frequently-covered song, eg local band from last year, Le Shok, 1xbillion Cali punk bands) and being indifferent to the "Shari Vari" cover - bit of a shame coming after the Dirtbombs version. Neither live up to their "Me & My Rhythm Box" cover, but glad to have them back.

Am I the only one who likes their cover of "No Tears" almost better than the original?

I'm a huge tuxedomoon devotee but I might agree with you

I've unfortunately only ever heard bad Youtube conversions of Tuxedomoon and can't compare properly but the Adult. version is greaaaat

Heads up

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2013/02/adult-announces-new-album-ghostl

https://soundcloud.com/ghostly/adult-idle-second-thoughts-1

Second teaser: https://soundcloud.com/ghostly/03-tonight-we-fall/s-T8iWg
Seems they've finally gone back to their electro roots and the sound that made them great

And full album streaming

http://www.thefader.com/2013/05/07/stream-adult-s-the-way-things-fall-album/

love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_uoElpYHRM

New repress of Resuscitation on Ghostly coming up, to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

I definitely drifted away from Adult. but should explore what I loved about them - they seemed perfect at some point.

I went on Tidal tonight and found out there's a new LP, "Kissing Luck Goodbye," which came out today. I'm as far in as track 9 as I type this, but so far "Freaks" really stands out as a favorite (I guess they chose two other songs to be the lead singles). It's purely them, but seems to bring in 90s hardhouse but also Crass Records sensibilities, almost playing them off each other (or resolving the dialectic in toto, or not). I am really liking this record so far.