Every few months I must sing the praises of Adult’s masterwork form 2001, Resuscitation. One of my favorite things to do is to race through the looping motorways of Detroit on a cold night with Adult blaring on the stereo. The corridors of I-696 are good for this. So is the part where the Lodge snakes into the city or I-375 swoops under Cobo Hall.

Unfortunately, I got tagged for speeding somewhere around the three minute mark of ‘Skinlike’, which might be the all-time best night driving song ever: “Sometimes I drive so fast I feel like I can’t even breathe the air. There are times when I can’t leave my house for a day or more.”

Someday I want to live in a world where if I’m stopped for speeding, I can point at the radio and the fuzz would hear that arpeggiated synth and Nicola’s voice and say “I understand” and let me go. Write your congressman.

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Adult. – Skinlike (Equation Mix)
from Resuscitation. Ersatz, 2001 | buy