ADULT. announce new album ‘Kissing Luck Goodbye’

Detroit’s most uncooperative institution is back—and they’re louder, sharper, and more furious than ever.

Out March 27 via Dais Records
Lead single/video: “No One Is Coming”
US Spring 2026 Headlining Tour Announced

For over 25 years, ADULT.—the Detroit synth-punk powerhouse of Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller—have thrived on distrust, frustration, and unease. Time hasn’t softened them. If anything, it’s sharpened the blade. Their tenth full-length, ‘Kissing Luck Goodbye,’ is a scorched-earth statement: uncompromising, volatile, and absolutely uninterested in nostalgia or comfort.

This is not a victory lap. This is a warning flare.

Built with upgraded gear and an entirely new sonic arsenal, ‘Kissing Luck Goodbye’ is crushing but precise—louder, clearer, and more confrontational than anything in ADULT.’s catalog. Kuperus’ voice sits front and center, delivering chants, commands, and corrosive observations with commanding force. Laughter snakes through the record like a possessed echo, a reminder of how absurd—and terrifying—modern life has become.

The album’s lead single, No One Is Coming, is a bass-driven industrial anthem that turns feedback into melody and rage into resolve. Written as a direct confrontation with apathy in the face of rising fascism, its central line hits like a brick:

NO ONE IS COMING TO YOUR RESCUE.

Originally written in early 2025, the lyric feels even more brutal now. Kuperus describes the track as a call to arms—rooted in moral collapse, political corruption, and the slow erosion of community. Inspired by an environmental scientist’s warning about what lies ahead, the song insists that survival depends on knowing your neighbors, protecting the vulnerable, and standing together. No algorithms. No saviors. Just people.

“Be alert. Be aware. Be prepared. Stand up for yourself and look out for your community,” Kuperus says. “NO ONE IS COMING TO YOUR RESCUE… except ALL OF US.”

That urgency bleeds through every second of the record.

Known for their high-stakes, cathartic live shows, ADULT. recently revisited bass-heavy material from their early-2000s era, partly as a response to today’s political and technological dread. The reaction was immediate. Stage dives. Chaos. A reminder of what this band does best. “This is the energy I want to get back into,” Kuperus recalls after a show in Paris.

But ‘Kissing Luck Goodbye’ wasn’t born easily. The album took shape amid chronic vertigo, the devastating loss of close friend and collaborator Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb (to whom the record is dedicated), and the suffocating weight of the current political climate. Studio breakdowns, dead car batteries, busted air conditioners—it felt cursed. “Everything’s breaking. We’re breaking. We’re broken,” Kuperus admits.

Still, fury won.

Rather than retreat, ADULT. went deeper—new microphones for the first time in 20 years, obsessive sound design, massive sample libraries built from thrift-store records, field recordings, and bizarre textures (including shop-vacs run through pedals). At any moment, a dozen elements collide in dizzying, dissonant harmony. Producer Nolan Gray—a chance collaborator they met while staying at his rental—helped them push the process further than ever.

Songs emerged from strange places. No One Is Coming takes its tempo from a skipping record captured on a phone during Kuperus’ 50th birthday trip. None of It’s Fun detonates with breathless speed and gut-ripping lines that feel like they’re being screamed directly at the listener. The closer, Destroyers, is the record’s final exhale—controlled chaos giving way to a stark, devastating a cappella that lands like a verdict.

This is ADULT. refusing to go quietly. Refusing to smooth the edges. Refusing to pretend things are fine.

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‘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

Pre-order or pre-save ‘Kissing Luck Goodbye’ here

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To mark the release, the duo will take their chaotic live show across the US in Spring 2026, hitting both coasts, the Midwest, and beyond. Expect volume, sweat, confrontation—and maybe a little salvation through noise.

ADULT. Live Dates (Spring 2026)

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

‘Kissing Luck Goodbye’ drops March 27 via Dais Records.
No one is coming. Act accordingly.