Rough Dimension

by VR SEX

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drcoleman Absolutely brilliant album with bold, cheeky lyrics. Outstanding work, Andrew and friends. Favorite track: Crisis Stage.

9RnK7 Being such a huge fan of Andrew's work in Drab Majesty I had to check this out. This is an entirely different beast that shows just how great a songwriter Mr Clinco is. Post-punk with emotion and grit that makes me want to dance. I wish I could inject Andrew's dissonant guitar tone directly into my veins, it would surely add 10 years to my life. Rough Dimension has become one of my all time favorites. Favorite track: Taste of Hate.

cassius_wolf Genre-defining dark post-punk. Danceable rhythms with provocative lyrics talking about our own Rough Dimension. Must listen for any post-punk fan. Favorite track: Walk of Fame.

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1.	Victim or Vixen 04:01	buy track
2.	Glutton for Love 03:06	buy track
3.	Cyber Crimes 00:34	buy track
4.	Live (In a Dream) 04:08	buy track
5.	Walk of Fame 05:46	buy track
6.	Crisis Stage 04:19	buy track
7.	Taste of Hate 03:33	buy track
8.	Snake Water 05:44	buy track
9.	End Vision 05:45	buy track

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The latest by Andrew Clinco’s acid punk alias VR SEX takes its title from an architectural phrase but more importantly refers to the warped, wicked underworld the songs both chronicle and condemn. Donning the moniker Noel Skum – an acerbic anagram of Elon Musk – Clinco vents his scorn for and fascination with the seedy, surreal margins of low-life Los Angeles, doomed to dead ends of vanity, lust, and technology. Although initially launched as an outlet for “heavier sounds” beyond Clinco’s duties in new wave fantasists Drab Majesty, the project has ripened into a compelling exercise in world building, weaving themes of gritty city neo-futurist sleaze within a framework of driving, distorted guitars and cathode-blasted synths. Echoes of Chrome, Wire, Minimal Man, and Sisters Of Mercy ripple through the collection but ultimately Rough Dimension charts its own twisted vision of “our unforgiving reality.”

Written and demoed across two weeks alone in a Marseille flat using his prized 1980’s Gibson “Invader” and a laptop, Clinco then took the tracks to Strange Weather studios in Brooklyn to record with Ben Greenberg (Uniform, The Men) who helmed 2019’s debut, Human Traffic Jam. The results are notably ripping, refined, and riveting. Riffs in alternate tunings chug and churn over mid-tempo drums punctuated by spikes of sci-fi electronics while the vocals swagger and spit venom (“where we walk is also where we shit / but if we bark at our reflections are we hypocrites? / impulses bleed right into our seed / where hate culminates the apple rotted on the tree”). It’s a bristling mix of the melodic and the macabre, absurdist observations of fast living and desperate measures, the clock of youth ticking towards midnight as dreams unravel in Babylon.

VR SEX’s specialty is making these cautionary tales of psychic decay and tainted love a thrill rather than a drag. There’s a sunglasses at night glamor to Clinco’s choruses and solos, a wit to his black leather judgements (“what is the answer / to cancerous people / walking in my line of sight?”). The music’s milieu tends towards parasites and predators but its mood skews refreshingly accelerated and amused, cruising the strip with a cigarette, watching goths and limousines crawl in gridlock beneath digital billboards. The Rough Dimension may be a cesspool, but it’s home.

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released March 25, 2022

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Paper Tiger

San Antonio, TX
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Foto Club

Philadelphia, PA
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Bar le Ritz PDB

Montreal, QC
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The Baby G

Toronto, ON
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Outer Limits

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Cobra Lounge

Chicago, IL

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