ADULT. Announce New Album Kissing Luck Goodbye
Coming March 27 via Dais Records
Release Lead Single / Video “No One is Coming”
An industrial anthem written as a call to arms. Be alert. Be aware. Be prepared. Stand up for yourself and look out for your community.
Announce US Spring Headlining Tour
Photo Courtesy of Artist
ADULT. is not cooperating. For over 25 years, the dystopian Detroit synth-punk institution founded by Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller has embodied steadfast frustration, distrust, and apprehension. One might expect the edges to soften with time, but ADULT. is not interested in the comforts of legacy. The duo’s music has never sounded as visceral, urgent, and downright angry as it does on the culminating, uncompromising Kissing Luck Goodbye, their scorched-earth 10th LP and fourth with Dais Records.
Built with upgraded gear and a whole new library of sounds, the material is crushingly dynamic, louder yet clearer, with Kuperus’ commanding delivery given greater prominence in the mix, outlining an arsenal of vivid, caustic calls, chants, and musings. Laughter, whether in the lyrics or as a possessed presence, serves as a leitmotif that speaks to the menacing absurdity of modern times.
“No One is Coming”, the album’s lead single is a poignant, bassline-driven industrial anthem that turns feedback into melody, the track attacks inaction in the face of fascism —
NO ONE IS COMING TO YOUR RESCUE… A lyric that was written in early 2025 and is even more relevant on its release date a year later. A song speaking to moral collapse and political corruption “to a T”. These subhumans attempting to run the show are more concerned with cashing in and political cosplay than the well being of mankind. While working on this album, I read an article from an esteemed environmental scientist about “what’s coming in the future”. What stuck with me was their point that we are entering a new phase in existence where the most important thing we can do is know our neighbors and know the strengths of each other and what resources everyone has. Who needs extra care? Who is on their own? This song was written as a call to arms. Be alert. Be aware. Be prepared. Stand up for yourself and look out for your community. We are better when we are united. Social media is wearing us down. Deluding us. The political landscape is horrifying, distracting, deranged and unhinged. We are seeing this go down in real time right now in Minneapolis… NO ONE IS COMING TO YOUR RESCUE… except ALL OF US! Keep speaking up! Keep using your right to protest and most importantly keep showing kindness to one another.
– Nicola Kuperus
ADULT. is known for high-stakes catharsis on stage, and recently deployed their back catalog of bass guitar songs from the 2000s, retracing the prescient Anxiety Always era partially out of necessity given the temperature of today’s political and technological dread. The response was instant and palpable: “We were in Paris, and the kids were stage diving. And I was like, this is rad. This is kind of the energy I want to get back into,” Kuperus says. The epiphany coincided with a series of setbacks — Kuperus’ bouts with chronic vertigo, the loss of their close friend and collaborator Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb, whom the album is dedicated to — all made profoundly worse under the looming regime. “We were stuck in the mud for quite a while after the election,” Miller says. “We had all the concepts, but we would just be like, ‘What's the point?’” With failing studio air conditioners and dead car batteries (their sacred space for listening back to recordings), they often joked that the album might be cursed. Kuperus adds, “We're just like everything's breaking. We're breaking. We're broken.”
The sentiment didn’t stick, however, as they found themselves ultimately too super-charged by fury to sit still. From watching Musk’s disgusting nazi salute to seeing their community struggle under the new regime to waiting months for a tariff-inflated replacement subwoofer, the vibe heading into Kissing Luck Goodbye was four middle fingers pointed straight up.
Rather than retreat, ADULT. focused on the process, revisiting their setup, complete with their first new mics in 20 years. They obsessed over textures, amassing a massive sample library taken from old thrift-store albums, previously used and unused ADULT. ingredients and new field recordings, running myriad items, including the buzz of shop vacs, through various pedals. Pause Kissing Luck Goodbye at any moment, and you’re likely to count a dozen things happening at once in strange, dizzying, and dissonant harmony. Together with producer Nolan Gray, whose involvement resulted from a chance encounter (he happened to be the host of the short-term rental property where the two stayed — maybe there is still some luck, after all), the band pushed themselves harder than ever before to build a world with this record.
Songs took shape from unusual places: “No One Is Coming” got its tempo from a skipping record they captured through a cell phone during a bnb stay for Kuperus’ 50th birthday. “None of It's Fun” blitzes with breathless urgency, high-speed glissades, and pointed lines like “OH I AM TEARING MY GUTS OUT / LOOK AT ME…DO YOU THINK THAT THIS IS AMUSING?” The closer, “Destroyers”, was the last song they recorded and encompasses the techniques that ADULT. has learned not just throughout the making of Kissing Luck Goodbye, but across their quarter-century as a pioneering collaborative project. A straightforward bassline and kick collide with pulsing mantras, then becomes completely saturated and cacophonous. Their younger selves might have let the song destroy itself, but here, they were able to steady the volume throughout the extremes, making way for a poignant, parting a cappella:
WE PAY THE PRICE FOR
THOSE IN POWER
EXPLOITING YOU
EXPLOITING ME
CONSUMING YOU
CONSUMING ME
SICK SICK SICK
SICKENING
IT IS US
THAT ARE DEVOURED
BY EVERYTHING
I WILL EAT YOUR HATE
ADULT. bring their chaotic show across the states Spring 2026. They’ve announced the official Kissing Luck Goodbye US tour today which hits both coasts, the midwest and more. See below for all dates - updates and tickets are available here.
Kissing Luck Goodbye Artwork
Kissing Luck Goodbye Tracklist:
1 - Affordable Decorating
2 - Wishing Luck Goodbye
3 - R U 4 $ALE
4 - No One Is Coming
5 - No Song
6 - Freaks
7 - None of It’s Fun
8 - Human(e) Volume
9 - So Unpleasant
10 - Destroyers
ADULT. Live Dates:
Apr 10: Pittsburgh, PA - Spirit Lodge
Apr 11: Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
Apr 12: Brooklyn, NY - Good Room
Apr 14: Raleigh, NC - Kings
Apr 15: Atlanta, GA - The Earl
Apr 16: Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbits
Apr 17: Orlando, FL - The Social
Apr 18: Miami, FL - TBD
Apr 21: New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
Apr 22: Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)
Apr 23: Austin, TX - 29th Street Ballroom
Apr 24: San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
Apr 25: Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
Apr 28: Albuquerque, NM - Sister
Apr 29: Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
Apr 30: San Diego, CA - The Casbah
May 01: Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Forever (Masonic Lodge)
May 02: San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
May 04: Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
May 05: Seattle, WA - Barboza
May 08: Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
May 09: Cudahy, WI - X-Ray Arcade
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