Horseplay

Technology was meant to be humanity’s tool to combat famine, disease, confusion, and to facilitate life, culture, and innovation. Instead, we’re mired in a digital labyrinth that few care to navigate or even solve. Perhaps it’s not a ruse and the matrices coded by keyboard maestros are a path to liberation, but without querying the constructs we cannot ruminate on their affectations on humanity.

VR SEX are audio/visual provocateurs who transpose the identifiers of death rock, synth punk, post-punk, ambient, and ethereal soundscapes into an audit on technology and its imprint on our collective psyche. Their debut EP, Horseplay, was recorded solely by the mercenary seer Noel Skum (Andrew Clinco of Drab Majesty) and initially released as a limited edition cassette in April 2019.

Through Procreation Simulation Reproduction Stimulation (PSRS), humans can act on their hedonistic desires and not face the responsibilities and consequences that come with being an ill-prepared guardian. The future of our offspring will exist in virtual realms and population growth in turn will be stabilized. VR SEX is the cure to most societal ills. Rather than being emblematic of influences, each song by VR SEX infuses a dire tension that cuts shimmer with fetid frequencies, never establishing an aural hierarchy or urgency. Instead, we’re led into punchy capsules of “dour pop”; the balance of saccharine and sour so emblematic of the VR SEX hive mind.

Dais Records re-releases Horseplay in new limited edition 12” EP vinyl formats.

Noel Skum helms all instruments for this home-recorded release and mixed directly to tape by engineer Mike Kriebel.

Cassette Release Date: March 15, 2019

Vinyl Release Date: October 4, 2019

Formats:

• Clear Red Cassette | 250 edition  (sold out)
• Black Cassette | 250 edition   (sold out)
• Glow-in-the-Dark Vinyl EP | 200 edition   (sold out)
• Clear/Black Splatter Vinyl EP | 300 edition   (sold out)
• Clear Vinyl EP | 750 edition
• Black Vinyl EP

Tracklist:

1. Landmine
2. Everything's Fine
3. A Shot At Love
4. The Watchers