VR SEX, the acid punk alias of Noel Skum aka Andrew Clinco of Drab Majesty, has today released his new full length, Hard Copy, via Dais Records. Following 2022’s Rough Dimension album, Skum made the radical leap of expanding his psychedelic post-punk vehicle VR SEX into a fully collaborative five-piece band. To christen the new group’s camaraderie, they booked a block of studio time in Glassell Park, working twelve hour days, they banged out the basics in a week, then tracked the rest over a month, fine-tuning it with flourishes, FX and amplifier experiments. Hard Copy is the result, 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 fata...