Grow Up
by Desperate Journalist
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Drowned In Sound
    Mar 31, 2017
    80
    A 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.
  2. Record Collector
    Mar 31, 2017
    80
    With 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.
  3. Mojo
    Mar 24, 2017
    60
    Jo 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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  5. Q Magazine
    Mar 24, 2017
    80
    Grown Up is a personal diary magnified to the scale of an IMAX screen. [May 2017, p.103]
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  6. The Quietus
    Mar 24, 2017
    80
    The songs feel bigger, better, more expansive and fresher, while their collective deportment has something of a swagger about it.
  7. The Skinny
    Mar 24, 2017
    100
    Throughout, 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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