PREMIERE: Adaptors Make Smart & Weighty Post-Punk Music On ‘Gossamer’

Treading new ground, while retaining their dusk interpretation of post-indie music, Sydney’s Adaptors are back with another instant hit with Gossamer and it propels the four-piece into new territory. Before its official release this week, AAA Backstage readers are lucky enough to grab an exclusive first listen of Adaptors’ new single, Gossamer.

Following from previous post-punk epic, Closer, Adaptors open themselves up even further, both in terms of musical intricacies and lyrical subject matter. Similar to Closer, there’s still a reinforced nature of nostalgia and longing but now Adaptors employ the age-old formula of “sad music to dance to.” The song prowls instead of pummels, with clean, glistening guitar lines only enhanced by a strategic use of space that meant the silences between the notes accumulated their own crushing weight.

Still, with its funk overtones, Adaptors keep their contemporaries’ influences by their side with Gossamer sounding like a Slint classic. It’s in the American Football-style guitar tones—particularly in the bridges and hushed cross-sections—where Adaptors truly flourish. Rival this with the band’s apathetic lyrics and you’ve got yourself deep into the next generation of post-punk.

Rather than drift into oblivion, Adaptors continue to remain fresh with each new track encompassing a new weight and power to the group’s musical backgrounds. In this case, coalescing into a power post-punk tune.

Adaptors will be performing a special three-show run in October through Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong. Catch the full show details below along with the exclusive stream of Gossamer.

Adaptors Live Dates

FRI 6 OCT
Hamilton Station Hotel, Newcastle
FRI 20 OCT
Captain Cook Hotel, Sydney
FRI 27 OCT
The Yo-Yo Bar, Wollongong