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- Summary: The second full-length release for the British post-punk band led by Jo Bevan was produced with Keith Totp.
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- Record Label: Fierce Panda
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Indie/Alternative, Indie Rock
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Mar 24, 2017Throughout, Grow Up is a bracing and vital antidote to genre norms, and shares a worldview that nourishes both heart and head. A huge undertaking, a staggering achievement. You need this.
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Mar 24, 2017The songs feel bigger, better, more expansive and fresher, while their collective deportment has something of a swagger about it.
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Q MagazineMar 24, 2017Grown Up is a personal diary magnified to the scale of an IMAX screen. [May 2017, p.103]
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Mar 31, 2017With the likes of Hollow, all echoing goth riffs, the dance-around-your bedroom exuberance of Resolution, and the caustic Your Genius, it can’t help but win you over.
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Mar 31, 2017A few more years playing together has refined Desperate Journalist’s songwriting significantly. There’s more emotional and musical depth to the songs on Grow Up, the slow-dance of ‘Purple’ being probably the biggest example of this.
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MojoMar 24, 2017Jo Bevan declaims like Siouxsie leading The Smiths, on fevered melodies worthy of a band named after a Cure rarity. [May 2017, p.98]
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