Grow Up (Desperate Journalist album)

Grow Up
Studio album by
Desperate Journalist
Released24 March 2017
Recorded2016
GenrePost punk, indie rock
Length44:45
LabelFierce Panda
ProducerDesperate Journalist, Keith TOTP
Desperate Journalist chronology
Good Luck EP
(2015) 		Grow Up
(2017) 		You Get Used To It EP
(2018)
Singles from Grow Up
  1. "Hollow"
    Released: October 2016
  2. "Resolution"
    Released: January 2017
  3. "Be Kind"
    Released: March 2017
  4. "Why Are You So Boring"
    Released: June 2017

Grow Up is the second album by London-based post punk band Desperate Journalist. It was released on 24 March 2017 on Fierce Panda Records. The first single, "Hollow", was released in October 2016. The second single, "Resolution", was released in January 2017 and has been playlisted on BBC Radio 6 Music.[1][2][3] "Be Kind" was released as the third single in March 2017, just prior to the album's release.[4] A fourth single, "Why Are You So Boring" was released in June 2017.[5]

The band's singer Jo Bevan describes the album as being about "figuring out what being an adult is supposed to mean". The cover is a photograph of Bevan "at the start of [her] (ongoing) phase of teenage angst".[2]

  1. ^ Roy, David (13 January 2017). "Noise Annoys: Desperate Journalist Grow Up". The Irish News. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b "WATCH: New Desperate Journalist Vid". 27 January 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  3. ^ BBC Radio 6 Music [@BBC6Music] (17 January 2017). "New to the playlist - tracks from @boniver @TheRyanAdams @theflaminglips @petedoherty @DespJournalist and more http://bbc.in/2ixU0Rk" (Tweet) – via Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Johnson, Laura (10 March 2017). "Desperate Journalist Stream New Single Be Kind". Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  5. ^ "DESPERATE JOURNALIST RELEASE NEW SINGLE ON JUNE 2ND". Fierce Panda. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.