Grow Up - The Best Thing / Without Wings 10" Interview 1

Interview 1

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Grow Up - The Best Thing / Without Wings 10" Interview 1Digitally remastered, this 42 track double CD anthology features the entire recorded output of Manchester indiepop pioneers Grow Up between 1979 and 1981. "The Best Thing is not only extremely commercial, it's a record of mellow, sublime magic," wrote Paul Morley in NME in 1979. "Their sound is a sort of ingenious, sax propelled chamber pop, of the Ayers XTC English eccentric line, but it also holds the melancholy depth and sauce of Brechtian cabaret,