We Grow Up – Night Kitchen
Night Kitchen – We Grow Up
By Chris Peken
What a lil’ gem. This debut from Adelaide’s We Grow Up is Unearthed’s Black Swan, the unexpected surprise no-one could have predicted beyond the fact that their inevitably must be one. Amid the retro-rockers, the singer-songwriters, the new-wave neu-wave-eighties synthesiser revivalists comes the thoughtful, well-constructed pastoral-folk-pop of Night Kitchen. Whether its the Animal-esque organ on Fingernails, the Baroque Belle and Sebastian influence on Wrote It All Down in My Diary or wonderful folk-pop of Celia, “Celia went down to the river / In site of God / In spite of man”, that just wont leave your head (complete with Beach Boys refrain). It is rare to see such adventure so well executed on a debut, particularly when a band so obviously defies any tendency to-wards fad or fashion, rather following their own distinct muse. If you like your pop music with lashings of Beatles and dashes of Elliot Smith then it is time for you to get into the Night Kitchen.
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