VR SEX Share “Real Doll Time” & Announce New Album “Hard Copy”

Following 2022’s Rough Dimension album, Noel Skum, aka 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. Their new full length Hard Copy is due out on the 22nd March via Dais Records, it features ten 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, to mark the announcement, the band are sharing the first single from the record, Real Doll Time. You can pre-order Hard Copy and stream Real Doll Time here

Mixed by guitarist Mike Kriebel, the album 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.