Adult. have tracked the existential dread of late-stage capitalism, since Anxiety Always, but they’ve rarely done it with as much righteous anger as on Kissing Luck Goodbye. Following the more personal perspectives of Becoming Undone, Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus look outwards once again, decrying consumption, corruption, and creeping fascism as only they can. To meet the occasion, they pare down and sharpen up their music. Working with producer Nolan Gray and a new library of sounds, the duo offer some of their most cleanly recorded music with Kissing Luck Goodbye. The results, however, are far from commercial. Much like the forces they’re fighting, Adult.’s intent is disruption. “The chaos is what they want,” Kuperus growls on “R U 4 $ALE,”…
