VR SEX - Hard Copy - TEST PRESSING - Acid Punk, Chrome, Drab Majesty Germs RARE
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Description
This is a rare vinyl test pressing of the Dais Records release of VR SEX's album Hard Copy
"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, Stick Men 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."
Information:
Artist: VR SEX
Title: Hard Copy
Cat.: DAIS224
Release Date: March 22, 2024
Record Label: Dais Records
Side A:
Dictionary Talk
Hush Money Millionaire
Inanimate Love
Squid Row
Real Doll Time
Side B:
Runway Runaway
Space Invasion
Jenny Killer Glue
In Great Detail
Medication Or Meditation
RIYL: Chrome, The Adolescents, Flipper, Stick Men With Ray Guns, Germs, Sextile, Drab Majesty, Wire, Sisters of Mercy, Cold Cave, Kontravoid, John Maus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Slowdive, Ritual Howls, My Bloody Valentine
Note on test pressings auctions:
We grade test pressings at "VG" but the quality may be higher
This is a test pressing and/or "white-label" in a standard factory-issued jacket & sleeve
Test pressings should be considered "used" as this record may have been played and handled during the test-pressing process for this release
The jacket and sleeve may have handwritten notes, show signs of storage, or have imperfections (e.g. being "dog-eared")
This record is sold "as-is", and we do not accept returns
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