Even though electroclash quickly fell out of favor in underground circles, Adult. felt that its music distinguished itself by the honesty of its emotions, a constant Kuperus and Miller say has carried them along for 25 years. So much of that music was just about fashion and excess, and at the heart of it all, we're really just a punk band."Īdult. "When we write music, it's more from like a psychological existential point of view. "We worked really fucking hard to transcend that label because we absolutely hated it," Kuperus says now. It was a classification that always felt was ill-suited. was lumped into the electroclash genre, along with acts like Miss Kittin, Chicks on Speed, Peaches, and Fischerspooner. That makes it all the more surprising when you remember that Kuperus and Miller first found success in the underground dance-music scene at the turn of the century. The melody often stutters and clangs, adding to the quasi-nihilistic mood of Adult.'s music. This introspection is set against electro-tinged beats that range from industrial to EBM. "I felt the world slip, I felt the world slip/Off my tongue./I touch your face, you touch my face/Between dreams," Kuperus howls in "Our Bodies Weren’t Wrong." In a subsequent track, she laments, "We are drifting, drifting through/A time-limited engagement." Knowing the circumstances that preceded Becoming Undone's recording, it's impossible not to see the work through a lens of grief. "I feel like we're always very reactionary in our work, so the album was really made out of total necessity to just get our shit together and feel like there's some kind of purpose to all of this." "It would be impossible to have made an upbeat, joyful album that would have just been completely fake for us," Kuperus explains. have come to expect: aggressive, knob-twiddling pop. The aptly titled, Becoming Undone delivers everything fans of Adult. But toward the end of 2020, they set to work on what would become their ninth studio album. With so much grief and doom surrounding them, you'd think the last thing Kuperus and Miller could think about was making music. "That was about a month of that, which was this beautiful, satisfying experience -but obviously very hard." "We were hurting on money, and then Nicola's father passed away from cancer, and we were his hospice caregivers," Miller says. Kuperus ' father died at the height of the pandemic when isolation was at its peak. Then Kuperus' father fell ill, and the couple, who are husband and wife, had to provide hospice care. As the electronic act Adult., the duo had just released its eighth studio album, Perception is/as/of Deception, only to find itself unable to go on the road to promote it. But personal threats, anonymously, is just weak garbage," he says.Ĭorben, who has more than 77,000 followers on Twitter, tells New Times he posted the video with hopes that someone would recognize the suspect and that police would complete a thorough investigation.Like every other musical act during the pandemic, Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller found themselves unable to tour. "Having a public discussion with whoever took offense to my comment in city hall or in a Zoom meeting, non-anonymously, would be great. He did not think it would warrant what he considers a death threat. Gersten's offer to remove the Columbus statue came after protesters spray-painted the monument on June 10, leading police to charge into the park and make arrests. Gersten says he wanted his proposal to be a conversation starter with the city and for it to go through appropriate channels. It's not just random," Kerr tells New Times. "It appears to be beyond a regular graffiti act. Dan Kerr of the Wynwood Neighborhood Enhancement Team says City of Miami Police are currently investigating the incident, which he says seems more grave than just a simple act of tagging. #BREAKING: After owner offered $5,000 donation to to help remove Christopher Columbus statue from downtown, his business was spray painted with death threat #BecauseMiami /iZBbrC5CzN- Billy Corben JCmdr. Security footage from Gramps and neighboring businesses shows a person in a black hood, mask, and glasses spray-painting the wall around 4:30 a.m. "It didn't say 'Gramps goes' - it said 'you go.'" "I thought I must have struck a nerve with someone," Gersten says. After a Wynwood bar owner offered $5,000 for the City of Miami to remove a statue of Christopher Columbus from Bayfront Park, his business was spray-painted with an ominous message: "IF COLUMBUS GOES, YOU GO."Īdam Gersten, the owner of Gramps, tells New Times he feels confused and concerned about the nature of the threat.
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