Hayley & The Crushers Seek “Modern Adult Kicks” On New Album

Hayley And The Crushers have released their new full length, Modern Adult Kicks, on CD, vinyl and digital formats via Kitten Robot Records. Grown up enough to party with the babysitter, Modern Adult Kicks is exactly what it advertises to be: a more polished, wiser “big sister” to the band’s sunny 2020 sophomore album, Vintage Millennial. The band’s new album is a shining example of how to grow up without growing jaded (pandemic or not, impromptu dance parties are always encouraged in the Crusherverse). Anointed as “the naked embodiment of power pop punk” by New Wave icon Josie Cotton, who signed the band to her Kitten Robot Records imprint last year, the California-to-Detroit transplants are helmed by husband and wife team of guitarist Hayley Crusher Cain and bass player Dr. Cain ESQ, with Action Ben Cabreana on drums. Together, they’ve created the retro-futuristic album that the world needs now: On Modern Adult Kicks, even the most bummer of subjects contains a potent antidote of caffeine and heart.

One part pop, one part poison, all “poolside glitter punk,” Hayley and the Crushers’ Modern Adult Kicks was produced by legendary LA punk producer Paul Roessler and mastered by Mass Giorgini at Sonic Iguana Studios. According to the band, Modern Adult Kicks represents a rare constant over the past few years. “The album was something real to hold onto during a time of turbulence,” Hayley says. “We went through the isolating nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, we signed to Kitten Robot Records in the middle of it, and we started working both remotely and in-person with Paul Roessler, who is the closest thing to LA punk royalty we could imagine. That was a silver lining, to be sure.”

Modern Adult Kicks rollercoasters through the Crusherverse’s quirky underworld with a diary’s worth of intrigue. Collecting hooks from track one, Hayley conjures up the electricity of first-car freedom, the woes of suburban isolation and the lurid pleasures of Y2K chat rooms all wrapped in the warm glow of a late-night infomercial. “These songs are about heartbreak, isolation, addiction. But, of course, there’s sunshine too,” she explains. “Josie Cotton believed in us and brought us into her crew. This album is about dancing through the darkness.”

Hayley And The Crushers will also be heading out on a run of US tour dates in support of Modern Adult Kicks, the tour kicks off on the 23rd September at Fort Wayne, IN’s The Brass Rail and runs through to the 26th November when the tour culminates at LA’s Redwood Bar.