D.U.M.E. [EP] - Adult.
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  • Summary: The duo take a break from their own Ersatz Audio label with this six-song mini-album for Thrill Jockey, which features slightly more human-sounding vocals from Nicola Kuperus.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. All Music Guide
    70
    D.U.M.E.'s witchy, heavily eyelinered approach may appeal more to fans of bands like Numbers or Ersatz Audio's own Tamion 12 Inch than admirers of Adult.'s normally sleek, distant neo-electro, but the harsh, nervous allure of tracks like "Don't Talk (Redux)" and "Hold Your Breath" is undeniable.
  2. Junkmedia
    60
    A set that flat out refuses to be ignored.
  3. Pitchfork
    60
    The upshot of these six tracks seems to be that Adult. have been listening to a hell of a lot of Bauhaus. And I have to give them credit: They've followed that impulse right out to the sweet spot.
  4. Under The Radar
    30
    All but unlistenable for five of its six songs. [#9]
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  1. kayvong
    10
    Great stuff... I only knew Resuscitation before seeing them in concert recently, and was disappointed on the one hand that they style was less electro and more punk (a la early siouxie et al), but they do this stuff well, and retain the electronics as the backbone. I can see similarities to Bauhaus's more experimental b-sides here. It's dark and distant, but more human (in a goth sort of way) than their earlier stuff. I'm glad their style has developed, rather than stagnating. I'd reccomend this to people who are into the gray area music between punk/post-punk and new wave that early goth evolved from.… Expand

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