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The band Adulting, a four-piece unit from Portland, picked a fine band name, not because of the cleverness of that word (which went bankrupt a couple years ago after innumerable wailings from the Boomer generation), but because it betrays nothing about the sound of their band. Are they a too-earnestly folk act? A brutal spazzcore band? A Top 40 DJ?

The answer is none of these. An indie/emo/punk hybrid formed in 2014, Adulting play vaguely anthemic, vaguely dispirited emo-anthems with a surprising amount of character, energy, and catharsis. I don't know how socially adapted they are, but these four greater Portland twentysomethings’ new 10-song full-length Things Could Still Get Worse is pretty well adjusted.