{"id":39880,"date":"2024-03-23T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39880"},"modified":"2024-03-23T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T13:46:42","slug":"vr-sex-release-new-lp-hard-copy-share-in-great-detail-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39880","title":{"rendered":"VR SEX release new LP\u00a0\u2018Hard Copy\u2019 + share \u2018In Great Detail\u2019 video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VR SEX,\u00a0originally the project of\u00a0Noel Skum \u2013 aka\u00a0Andrew Clinco\u00a0of Drab Majesty who made the radical leap of expanding his psychedelic post-punk vehicle\u00a0into a fully collaborative five-piece band, have released their new album &#8216;Hard Copy&#8217; via\u00a0Dais Records.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Made up of\u00a010 new tracks of sneering psychedelic punk streaked with Chrome-damaged freak-outs and snotty power pop harmonies, chronicling sex doll love affairs and glue-sniffing fatales, the band have shared a new video for album standout track <em>In Great Detail<\/em>. Watch the clip via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7zaR_z8LUlE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following 2022\u2019s\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/anotherside.cmail19.com\/t\/y-l-xkjqjt-itjldhidjy-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Rough Dimension<\/a>\u2019\u00a0LP, Noel Skum made the radical leap of expanding his psychedelic post-punk vehicle\u00a0VR SEX\u00a0into a fully collaborative five-piece band.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To christen the new group\u2019s camaraderie of becoming a five-piece band,\u00a0VR\u00a0SEX\u00a0booked a block of studio time in Glassell Park, swapped skeletal iPhone demos, and\u00a0<em>\u201cdid that classic thing of a band making the exact record they want without any interference.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Working 12-hour days, they banged out the basics in a week, then tracked the rest over a month, fine-tuning it with flourishes, FX, and amplifier experiments.<br><br>Mixed by guitarist\u00a0Mike Kriebel\u2013 an accomplished engineer with dozens of credits across the punk, goth, and garage underground\u2013 the album is dense, rich, and spatial, spurred by Clinco\u2019s muse of<em>\u00a0\u201creckless abandon.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Shadows of Chrome, Stickmen With Rayguns, Japanese psych, and loud-quiet-loud grunge anthems flicker here and there, but ultimately\u00a0VR\u00a0SEX\u2019s mode is more sardonic and saturated, oscillating between ripped leather riffing and space echo meltdowns. Banning plug-ins was a mission statement, with most instruments tracked direct into the board, then guitars added via a daisy chain of amplifiers, panned and mixed and matched for maximum intoxication:\u00a0<em>\u201cMy goal is always to load up every take with as much sound as possible in one pass.\u201d<\/em><br><em>\u00a0<\/em><br>Lyrically, the record revisits the project\u2019s perennial fascinations: twisted lust, cheap thrills, dirty money, doomed delinquents, and ruined romance amid the creeps and cracked dreamers of gritty city voids. The title refers to the uncanny valley between\u00a0<em>\u201cfacsimile and the real thing, and the illusion that one is better than the other \u2013 when both come with their own menu of delights and demonic pleasures.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2018Hard Copy\u2019\u00a0embraces extremes and outliers, delusion and perversion, the conflicted dimensional depths lurking in every exploded heart:<em>\u00a0\u201cI can be ugly \/ I can be strong \/ I can be proper \/ I can be wrong \/ I can be lovely \/ or I can be gone \/ the thing that will haunt you is still hanging on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/72FFD0CE-4559-48E9-9430-795C8963498F.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/72FFD0CE-4559-48E9-9430-795C8963498F.jpeg?resize=900%2C900\" alt=\"VR SEX Hard Copy cover artwork\" class=\"wp-image-39882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/72FFD0CE-4559-48E9-9430-795C8963498F.jpeg?w=900 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/72FFD0CE-4559-48E9-9430-795C8963498F.jpeg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/72FFD0CE-4559-48E9-9430-795C8963498F.jpeg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/72FFD0CE-4559-48E9-9430-795C8963498F.jpeg?resize=768%2C768 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Hard Copy<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>track listing:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.\u00a0Dictionary Talk<br>2. Hush Money Millionaire\u00a0<br>3.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anotherside.cmail19.com\/t\/y-l-xkjqjt-itjldhidjy-k\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Inanimate\u00a0Love<\/a><br>4. Squid Row<br>5.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anotherside.cmail19.com\/t\/y-l-xkjqjt-itjldhidjy-u\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Real Doll Time<\/a><br>6. Runaway Runaway<br>7. Space Invasion<br>8. Jenny Killer Glue<br>9.\u00a0In Great Detail<br>10. Medication or Meditation<br><br>Grab a copy of\u00a0\u2018Hard Copy\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anotherside.cmail19.com\/t\/y-l-xkjqjt-itjldhidjy-h\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>VR SEX,\u00a0originally the project of\u00a0Noel Skum \u2013 aka\u00a0Andrew Clinco\u00a0of Drab Majesty who made the radical leap of expanding his psychedelic post-punk vehicle\u00a0into a fully collaborative <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39880\" title=\"VR SEX release new LP\u00a0\u2018Hard Copy\u2019 + share \u2018In Great Detail\u2019 video\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,29,30,1907,31],"tags":[9351,9894,11454,11455,10706],"class_list":["post-39880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","category-news","category-noise","tag-dais-records","tag-drab-majesty","tag-hard-copy","tag-in-great-detail","tag-vr-sex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/EA7ED1A7-9C86-42A7-B181-C52A1DCC9E9B-e1711201558775.jpeg?fit=900%2C574","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-ane","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39585,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39585","url_meta":{"origin":39880,"position":0},"title":"Drab Majesty share \u2018The Skin and The Glove\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"July 24, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Drab Majesty\u00a0have shared a second track The Skin and the Glove lifted from their forthcoming mini-album,\u00a0\u2018An Object in Motion,\u2019 which is set for release\u00a0on\u00a0August 25th\u00a0via\u00a0Dais Records. 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