Max McNown - Night Diving (The Cost Of Growing Up) (Indie Exclusive, 2LP Cream 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.”

1. Forever Ain't Long Enough
2. Better Me For You (Brown Eyes)
3. St. Helens Alpenglow
4. The Cost of Growing Up
5. Same Questions
6. Call Me If You Miss Me
7. This Side of Heaven
8. Marley
9. Wherever I'm Going
10. Where to Start
11. Night Diving (feat. Cameron Whitcomb)
12. It's Not Your Fault
13. Take This Plane
14. Hotel Bible
15. Roses and Wolves (feat. Hailey Whitters)
16. Won't Let Me Go
17. Azalea Place
18. Love I Couldn't Mend
19. Freezing in November (Revisited)
20. Night Diving
21. Hindsight & Photographs