Survival is the beating heart of music about struggle—the feminist punk and the politicized rapper, the queercore band and the radical pop star, the folks giving space to the unheard and the misunderstood. It only helps that Purchase, N.Y.-based indie pop quartet Adult Mom make it so easy to sing along. Singer Steph Knipe says they started playing music by strumming Rilo Kiley covers, and it must have been that band's folky 2001 debut Take Offs and Landings, but "Survival" is just deceptively light. The unwavering purpose of the refrain "I survive because I have died" is not the only line that sounds more like a hardcore lyric: "I set fire to abusers like a war," Knipe warns, curling the edges of each intonation with an astute bit of wearied twang, protesting for the right to be oneself.