“They’re Just Words” by ADULT.

Northern Transmissions' 'Song of the Day' is "They're Just Words" by ADULT.
Photo by Nicola Kuperus

ADULT. (Detroit’s Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller) have announced details of a new collaborative album, Detroit House Guests, out on double vinyl and CD on March 17, 2017, their first album for Mute.
ADULT. have also shared “They’re Just Words,” the first track to be taken from the album, featuring Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas J McCarthy.

Detroit House Guests is a collaborative project, conceived by ADULT. in the early 2000s. The concept became a reality in 2014 after receiving a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant. Based on the visual artist residency model, each musician came to ADULT.’s studio for a three week period with the parameter that they all live, work and collaborate together.

The album features collaborations with a whole host of musicians and artists – Douglas J McCarthy from Nitzer Ebb, Michael Gira from Swans, Shannon Funchess from Light Asylum, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens, Austrian thereminist Dorit Chrysler and multidisciplinary artist Lun*na Menoh.

ADULT. is the Detroit duo Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller. They played their first live show together in Germany in 1997 under the name Artificial Material. In early ’98 they released their first 12″ under the moniker Plasma Co. Later that year, they released their first 12″ under the name ADULT. Currently, they have released six albums and 19 EPs or singles on Ghostly International, Thrill Jockey and Clone Records, as well as on their own label Ersatz Audio, (which currently has over 40 releases since it was founded in ’95). They have remixed over 20 acts as well, including Tuxedomoon, John Foxx, Death in Vegas and Pet Shop Boys (for Moog Music).

Kuperus and Miller also make sculpture, paintings, films, photographs, performances, videos and installations. Their work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Austrian Cultural Forum (NY), Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit), MOMAS (Saitama, Japan), and Centre d’art contemporain de Meymac (FR). They have shown their film The Three Grace(s) triptych at spaces such as Anthology Film Archives (NY), Distrital Film Festival (Mexico City), and Grey Area for Art and Technology (SF).

DETROIT HOUSE GUESTS – TRACKLISTING
P rts M ss ng (featuring Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe)
Breathe On (featuring Michael Gira)
Into the Drum (featuring Lun*na Menoh)
We Are a Mirror (featuring Douglas J McCarthy)
Enter the Fray (featuring Dorit Chrysler)
Uncomfortable Positions (featuring Lun*na Menoh)
We Chase the Sound (featuring Shannon Funchess)
They’re Just Words (featuring Douglas J McCarthy)
Inexhaustible (featuring Dorit Chrysler)
Stop (and Start Again) (featuring Shannon Funchess)
This Situation (featuring Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe)
As You Dream (featuring Michael Gira)

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