Life seemed so quaint two-plus decades ago when we were all dancing hard to “Hand To Phone” and “Nausea” at dance parties like Start in Boston, but time moves with a cruel hand and the dystopian disco has become more noontime reality than midnight fantasy. ADULT. have always seemed poised to soundtrack the bleakness of the coming gray era, and so it’s fitting that a young 2026 finds the Detroit synth-punk powderkeg warning us that, nah, “No One is Coming” to our rescue.
Visionaries Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller dropped the new ADULT. track earlier this week, a frustrated assault of visceral rage that ricochets off our worst fears, confronting inaction during a rise of fascism, and it’s the first dose of new album Kissing Luck Goodbye. It drops March 27 on Dais Records, the label co-founded by the guy who spun those early jams so many moons ago.
We’ll let Kuperus take it from here: “‘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?”
She adds (because this is the important part): “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.”
And dance to keep from dying.