Gimmie Trouble

Adult | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 11, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Thrill Jockey
• ASIN: B000A87KK0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,340 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best album yet, October 18, 2005

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alexander laurence (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gimmie Trouble (Audio CD)

Adult. is one of the most interesting bands on the planet. They started their own label ten years ago. They created music that was uncompromising. Music by John Foxx and Tuxedomoon influenced their early records. They tour with trendy bands like The Faint. They ended up collaborating with Death in Vegas, and creating an international interest. Somehow a few years ago they got lumped in the Electroclash thing. After a few years of being unsatisfied with that they signed with a new label and set upon doing a new sort of music. They gained one more member in the band. Sam Consiglio was in the band Tamion. So it was a trio. They were at least 33% coming from a new place. Now they actually had guitars. A little listen to this new record confirms that this band has nothing to do with Electroclash and any trendy retro revival. The record does recall the No Wave scene and early LA punk. The songs are intricate and complex. Adult. Has become more able with three members. From their early days where they hardly played anything live to now, it is remarkable. Their live show is dynamic. This is their most together album. It is meant to be listened to as a whole. This is a band that is taking risks. It is an amazing journey.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In all honestly, January 25, 2006

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Hoichi, the Earless (Sietch Tabr, Arrakis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gimmie Trouble (Audio CD)

Upon the first time hearing this CD, I was ready to absolutely be rid of it and sell it to a used cd store for credit. Often my method of discovery involves either researching what I buy or going strictly by the aesthetic/song descriptions of a band; this often proves frustrating, but when it works its an amazing feeling. With Adult. I was using the latter method and thus didn't research them at all...so when to my surprise the music was a very cold and distant 80's sounding synthpop, I was naturally dismayed.

Yet upon further listens I realized that no, it really wasn't quite the like crappy Devo/"irony party" music I originally wrote it off as being. For that is absolutely the farthest thing from what could possibly be said to describe them...this album is absolutely menacing in its detachment. If I were to amalgamate the impression Adult. gives me is that if you took the musical detachment of Autechre (though not with the clicks/etc) and combined it with an almost un-human female pitch, wrapped it all up with the kind of dark ambivalence that the Van Der Graaf Generator permeates almost every album of theirs (even the tormented/anguished sound of the singer in Adult. reminds me of Hammill) & were to coat it in swaths of less simmering/coked-out syth-pop rhythms of the Venetian Snares, then i'd say thats about where Adult.(with this release anyways)has landed in their sound.

A hugely dark and difficult album, but one that i'd say you should always give more than one spin.

4.0 out of 5 stars Electro something?, June 22, 2007

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P. Buche "gabgolly" (Chicago, IL, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gimmie Trouble (Audio CD)

Some call it electroclash, others call it nu punk, I call it Adult. This is my first album by this band, and I like many of the songs. I wouldn't say that this is a five star album, but it certainly gets a strong ok. The music is pretty cool, and the female vocals have that punk chick vibe that makes them stand out as a truly original band. My only complaint is that after a while, some of the songs start to boar me.