Hard Copy VR Sex SKU: 25.00 25.00 £25.00 £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Dais Released Date: 22nd March 2024 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Hard Copy quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Following 2022’s Rough Dimension LP, Noel Skum – aka Andrew Clinco of Drab Majesty – made the radical leap of expanding his psychedelic post-punk vehicle VR SEX into a fully collaborative five-piece band. To christen the new group’s camaraderie, they booked a block of studio time in Glassell Park, swapped skeletal iPhone demos, and “did that classic thing of a band making the exact record they want without any interference.” Working 12-hour days, they banged out the basics in a week, then tracked the rest over a month, fine-tuning it with flourishes, FX, and amplifier experiments. Hard Copy is the result – 10 tracks of sneering psychedelic punk streaked with Chrome-damaged freak-outs and snotty power pop harmonies chronicling sex doll love affairs and glue-sniffing fatales. Mixed by guitarist Mike Kriebel – an accomplished engineer with dozens of credits across the punk, goth, and garage underground – the album is dense, rich, and spatial, spurred by Clinco’s muse of “reckless abandon.” Shadows of Chrome, Stickmen With Rayguns, Japanese psych, and loud- quiet-loud grunge anthems flicker here and there, but ultimately VR SEX’s mode is more sardonic and saturated, oscillating between ripped leather riffing and space echo meltdowns. Banning plug-ins was a mission statement, with most instruments tracked direct into the board, then guitars added via a daisy chain of amplifiers, panned and mixed and matched for maximum intoxication: “My goal is always to load up every take with as much sound as possible in one pass.” Lyrically, the record revisits the project’s perennial fascinations: twisted lust, cheap thrills, dirty money, doomed delinquents, and ruined romance amid the creeps and cracked dreamers of gritty city voids. The title refers to the uncanny valley between “facsimile and the real thing, and the illusion that one is better than the other – when both come with their own menu of delights and demonic pleasures.” Hard Copy embraces extremes and outliers, delusion and perversion, the conflicted dimensional depths lurking in every exploded heart: “I can be ugly / I can be strong / I can be proper / I can be wrong / I can be lovely / or I can be gone / the thing that will haunt you is still hanging on.” Artist VR Sex Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Dais Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Dictionary Talk Hush Money Millionaire Inanimate Love Squid Row Real Doll Time Runway Runaway Space Invasion Jenny Killer Glue In Great Detail Medication Or Meditation Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View PINS Hot Slick Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Haus Of PINS | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th May 2020 £16.00 - £18.00 Select options PINS Hot Slick £16.00 - £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Haus Of PINS Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 29th May 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Phantoms, The The Phantoms Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Rum Bar | CD Released 13th May 2016 £11.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Phantoms, The The Phantoms £11.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Rum Bar SKU: RUM013CD Formats: CD Released Date: 13th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View pronoun run Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Rhyme & Reason Records | 1LP Released 24th May 2019 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders pronoun run £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Rhyme & Reason Records SKU: RARLP040 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Therapy? 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