Adult.

The Way Things Fall

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• 01 heartbreak
• 02 idle (second thoughts)
• 03 tonight we fall
• 04 new frustration
• 05 love lies
• 06 at the end of it all
• 07 nothing lasts
• 08 a day like forever
• 09 we will rest
• 10 rise and fall

The Way Things Fall is an album that looked like it might never happen, because since the release of Miller and his partner Nicola Kuperus' last record — 2007's Why Bother? — the duo have been largely absent from the world of music. ''After a long world tour, we totally burnt out,'' Miller relates. ''We decided we wanted to do something completely different.'' That something was a trilogy of films entitled the Three Grace(s) triptych, completed in 2010, along with a variety of other pursuits, including managing a major commercial renovation and working on their visual art projects. When Miller and Kuperus re-entered the studio in 2012, there was no intention of making another album — they planned to record a 12'' containing two new songs they'd written in 2012 for their return to live performance at the Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art. But it turned out that the time away from music had recharged ADULT.'s batteries, and then some. ''We were apparently a dam that was ready to break,'' says Miller. ''We were writing frantically, as if in a frenzy.''