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 Cursive Get Fixed Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Big Scary Monsters | 1LP Released 17th January 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cursive Get Fixed £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM269V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wicca Phase Springs Eternal Suffer On Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Run For Cover Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th February 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wicca Phase Springs Eternal Suffer On £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Run For Cover Records SKU: 0811408031493 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pearl Jam Binaural Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sony Music | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th November 2017 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pearl Jam Binaural £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sony Music SKU: 88985409121 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Dinosaur Jr Sweep It Into Space Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Jagjaguwar | 1LP Released 23rd April 2021 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Dinosaur Jr Sweep It Into Space £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Jagjaguwar Released Date: 23rd April 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Delco MF’s 100% Complete and Total Motherfuckers Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Static Shock Records | 1LP Released 27th October 2023 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Delco MF’s 100% Complete and Total Motherfuckers £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Static Shock Records SKU: SSR111 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th October 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Back To Black | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 15th July 2016 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sonic Youth Sonic Nurse £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Back To Black SKU: 4749356 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 15th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bandaid Brigade Sex Is Terrifying Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Xtra Mile | 1LP Released 13th January 2023 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bandaid Brigade Sex Is Terrifying £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Xtra Mile SKU: XMR180LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bright Eyes Cassadaga Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Dead Oceans | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 16th June 2023 £38.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bright Eyes Cassadaga £38.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Dead Oceans SKU: DOC296LP-C1 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 16th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Into It. 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