This Behavior
With This Behavior, Adult.'s Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller celebrate their 20th anniversary and their Dais Records debut in the most appropriate way -- with a return to the most immediate, kinetic side of their music. Though it arrives just over a year after Detroit House Guests, This Behavior couldn't be more different than that album's cerebral collaborations. As intriguing as those experiments were, this time Miller and Kuperus play to some of their greatest strengths, and do so extremely well: When Kuperus growls "THIS behavior" on the title track or takes the legacy of Siouxsie Sioux to its logical, sneering end on the gleaming post-punk anthem "Does the Body Know?," it's instant gratification for anyone missing the duo's haughty grooves. To make the album, Adult. sequestered themselves and a stripped-down version of their live setup in a cabin in the Northern Michigan woods in the dead of winter. Fittingly, This Behavior's songs suggest their frostbitten surroundings as well