{"id":7493,"date":"2020-11-16T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2022-02-16T08:48:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T13:48:27","slug":"adulkt-life-book-of-curses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/adulkt-life-book-of-curses\/","title":{"rendered":"Adulkt Life <br>Book of Curses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/book-of-curses_adulkt-life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7494\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/book-of-curses_adulkt-life.jpg\" alt=\"Adulkt Life, Book of Curses\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/book-of-curses_adulkt-life.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/book-of-curses_adulkt-life-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>With the band including members of Huggy Bear and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agitreader.com\/reviews\/album_reviews-05.11.10.html#male_bonding-nothing_hurts\">Male Bonding<\/a>, it\u2019s hard not to have high expectations for the debut album from Adulkt Life, <i>Book of Curses<\/i> (What\u2019s Your Rupture?)\u2014especially if you were hoping for a new record from the former after Huggy Bear\u2019s reformation this past year. Fortunately, the record\u2019s 10 songs don\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Repeatedly tapping a vein of sharp-edged vitriol throughout the album\u2019s 25 minutes, the veterans in Adulkt Life reveal that anger isn\u2019t just the purview of the young. Indeed, Chris Rowley (of Huggy Bear) seemingly has his dander up from the get-go. On leadoff \u201cCountry Pride,\u201d he intones,\u201cYou made a promise,\u201d over a jaunty crisscrossing of bass and guitar lines. But it\u2019s on \u201cJNR Showtime\u201d that he (figuratively) gets in your face as he asks, \u201cWhy would you let this shit carry on?\u201d From there the album never lets up, the band gathering strength right before our very eyes\/ears. If Rowley was less intelligent or the band more heavy-handed this might fall in line with the current crop of Fontaines DC, Murder Capital, et. al worshipping at Mark E. Smith\u2019s grave. Instead, <i>Book of Curses<\/i> reminds me of the clamorous inventiveness of McClusky, if only because it checks many of the same synaptic boxes. (If I wasn\u2019t already itching to see some live music, now Adulkt Life has given me a more specific urge.) Indeed, this is catharsis incarnate, and by the time we get to the seventh song, \u201cRoom Context,\u201d wherein Rowley shouts, \u201cIn your paper-free environment, there are no love letters left,\u201d it\u2019s hard not to feel a little better than when the album began. The record doesn\u2019t stop there, though, and it ends with the prophetic \u201cNew Curfew,\u201d where Rowley sings, \u201cI don\u2019t know what to feel when I hear sirens outside anymore.\u201d It\u2019s a fitting finale to a record that, put out in a time when there\u2019s so little joy, capably gives us some needed relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the band including members of Huggy Bear and Male Bonding, it\u2019s hard not to have high expectations for the debut album from Adulkt Life, <i>Book of Curses<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[2448,34,623],"class_list":["post-7493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-adulkt-life","tag-album-review","tag-whats-your-rupture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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