Night Diving (The Cost Of Growing Up) [2LP] (Opaque Tangerine Vinyl)

Max Mcnown - Night Diving (The Cost Of Growing Up) [2LP] (Opaque Tangerine Vinyl)

Anchored in the charmingly warm vocal presence that McNown partly honed by busking at the beach in Southern California just a few years ago, Night Diving (The Cost of Growing Up) takes the latter half of its title from a gorgeously textured track that perfectly exemplifies his newly refined sound. With its rootsy and ethereal instrumentation-luminous steel guitar, lush mandolin, soulful organ-''The Cost of Growing Up'' arrives as a clear-eyed but melancholy meditation on the inevitability of pain.''To me, the cost of growing up is an acceptance that difficult things are going to happen-from minor inconveniences to devastating loss, it's all a part of life,'' says McNown. ''But there's also beauty in that because, without those hard moments, you wouldn't be able to truly love.''TracklistForever Ain't Long EnoughBetter Me For You (Brown Eyes)St. Helens AlpenglowThe Cost of Growing UpSame QuestionsCall Me If You Miss MeThis Side of HeavenMarleyWherever I'm GoingWhere to StartNight Diving (New Feature Version)It's Not Your FaultTake This PlaneHotel BibleRoses and Wolves (feat. Hailey Whitters)Won't Let Me GoAzalea PlaceLove I Couldn't MendFreezing in November (Revisited)Night DivingHindsight & Photographs