ADULT. - Detroit House Guests (2017) [Hi-Res]

Adam Lee Milelr and Nicola Kuperus a.k.a. Adult. return with a brace of high profile guests in tow on Detroit House Guests, slotting vocals from Michael Gira, Shannon Funchess, Douglas J McCarthy, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Dorit Chrysler and Lun*na Menoh into their urbane electro-pop frameworks.

As such Detroit House Guest is an album full of songs, rather than pure dance tracks, albeit leaning toward a category of avant-dance-pop songwriting shared by the likes of Chris & Cosey and members-only darkrooms in private buildings that many will never visit.

The dancefloor highlights come in the form of their pumping EBM-pop stompers We Chase The Sound and Stop (And StartAgain) feat. Shannon Funchess, and the nasal drip tang of We Are A Mirror feat. the authentically snotty snarl of Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy, but our preferred parts are reserved to the trippier pieces such as the Fever Ray-like creep and reverberant electronic tone of P rts M ss ng and This Situation’s descent into a dissonant abyss, featuring choral harmonies and modular gilding, respectively, by synth whizz Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.