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product_id: 63566901
title: "Grow Up"
brand: "desperate journalist"
price: "€ 52.75"
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reviews_count: 8
url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/63566901-grow-up
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# Grow Up

**Brand:** desperate journalist
**Price:** € 52.75
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- **What is this?** Grow Up by desperate journalist
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## Description

The Truth: Noirishly nourishing North London alt.gothic rocksters Desperate Journalist follow up their spectacular November Kamio comeback show with big news aplenty for the New Year. Firstly, the feisty quartet will headline Londons Scala on April 6th 2017 as part of a string of live dates in the UK and Germany. And secondly, on March 24th they release their second album, Grow Up, ostensibly eleven tracks of rocketing leftfield delights propelled forth with thundering rhythms, thunderously spectacular guitar and Jo Bevans thunderstruck vocals. Such is intense life with Desperate Journalist, one of the most potent, important DIY bands lurking on the underground scene right now. The campaign for Grow Up kicked off with the Kamio headline and the release of the heroically muscular Hollow single, followed by the launch of Resolution on New Years Day. If both Hollow and the follow-up Resolution capture a band working ever harder, faster, stronger then fittingly the Grow Up album sees Desperate Journalist building on the sublimely tetchy mood swings of their 2014 self-titled debut and the tense interim Good Luck EP by adding a fresh sonic sheen to their old school indie stroppings.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Great Find
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2019*

Worth having just for Why are you so boring.  A Classic

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    Love finding something new
  

*by E***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2017*

Fantastic CD. Only stumbled across as I was buying the new Jesus and Mary Chain CD and this was recommended. Much better than a lot of stuff currently sitting highly in the charts. Great guitars lovely vocals. I will now be ordering there first CD.

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    Nothing "Hollow" About This Lot...
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2017*

Is it me or is there something creepy about this album's front cover pic? I do get it though, and  'Desperate Journalist' singer Jo Bevan's pose { coquettish in kiddie's party dress } is at least conducive with the sentiment of the album's title. And penultimate track 'Oh Nina' perfectly touches upon that moment when those friends you spent your wildest years with suddenly opt for domesticity, leaving you the oldest teenager in town, " I Suppose it's time that I admit / That you grew up and got on with it ". Like a previous reviewer, I too am somewhat puzzled by the lack of attention  ' Grow Up' has received thus far. I hope that situation changes soon because this record is rich with wit and intelligence, not to mention choc- a- bloc with great tunes. Lengthy opener 'Hollow' is atmospheric in a slightly gothic kind of way and not exactly immediate, but it does challenge you to go on, and it's a journey well worth taking. Adroit guitarist Rob Hardy flits from chunky riffs, keening lead breaks, and strokes of gleaming 12- string Rickenbacker, thus keeping the sound varied.Simon Downer's able bass playing and Caroline Helbert's spirited drumming provide commendable backing, and the result is never short of thrilling. Me I'm a sucker for female fronted bands, a fondness that stretches back to X-Ray Spex, Slits, Penetration, Rezillos ad infinitum. As you might expect, 'Lush' loom large in my legend { HOW'S THAT FOR ALLITERATION?} and vocalist Jo Bevan picks up the baton with her droll, sometimes oblique but always interesting lyrics. While single ' Resolution' cynically tuts and rolls its eyes at the mundane ritual of new year's eve, the infectious 'Why Are You So Boring?' delivers the kind of ace put down that Morrissey would surely approve of. Likewise the self deprecation of 'I Try Not To' which opens with the line, "Happily I've Lost All My Nerve/ To Give Myself The Kicking I Deserve". 'All Over' is the sound of a woman at the end of her tether { "I Am The Gunshot That Echoes Down Your Hall"} and you wouldn't want to upset her would you? Her surname may be Welsh, but Bevan's voice carries these songs with that lucid Englishness befitting of Harriet Wheeler and Rose Elinor Dougall, yet is nonetheless distinctive. Comparisons have already been made with Echobelly, Sleeper, Elastica etc regarding 'Desperate Journalist's' look and sound. This isn't entirely fair based on the fact that this band are 2 parts female, and I doubt that the Britpop bands I mentioned would have liked being likened to say The Primitives or The Darling Buds on this flimsy evidence. "I'm Chain Mailed As Seberg In The Death Of Saint Joan" from album closer 'Radiating' is the kind of arty Lloyd Cole name dropping lyric that I'd normally raise an eyebrow to, but it's such a lovely song that's tonally more 'Gene' than their obvious muse, The Smiths. I'm now looking into backtracking to 'Desperate Journalists eponymous debut, which is always the sign of a fine, inspirational record and 'Grow Up' is all of that and more.

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