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ADULT. 'Detroit House Guests' (Mute)
The visual arts and popular music have had close ties before but, with the possible exception of Throbbing Gristle, ADULT. blur the lines like few before them. Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller have toured the world with their paintings, sculpture and installations but with ‘Detroit House Guests’, home is where the heart and avant-garde music is. Their collaborators – including Swans’ Michael Gira and Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas J McCarthy – spent three weeks living with them while working on the LP, resulting in this collage of raw, percussive grooves that combines post-punk, performance poetry, analogue synth explorations, crypto-techno and acid. It’s challenging, yes, but endlessly hypnotic, too. Stephen Worthy
7/10
