VR SEX Deliver “Inanimate Love” On Valentine’s Day

Hard Copy, the new album from VR SEX, will feature ten new 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. The record, that is due out on March 22nd via Dais Records, revisits the project’s perennial fascinations: twisted lust, cheap thrills, dirty money, doomed delinquents and ruined romance amid the creeps and cracked dreamers of gritty city voids. Today, the album’s second single, Inanimate Love, arrives alongside a new music video edited and animated by Danny Perez.  VR SEX says it’s “a short-form, contemporary documentary about humans who are in love with things that have not yet (by definition) achieved ‘sentience’.”

Mixed by guitarist Mike Kriebel, Hard Copy is dense, rich and spatial, spurred by Clinco’s muse of “reckless abandon.” Shadows of Chrome, Stickmen 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. Lyrically, the record revisits the project’s perennial fascinations: twisted lust, cheap thrills, dirty money, doomed delinquents and ruined romance amid the creeps and cracked dreamers of gritty city voids.