Through their first three albums, Demob Happy were many things: indie sleaze princes, post-grunge romanticists, ’80s synthwave cosplayers, the list goes on. Fortunately, they could do it all well, and that afforded them the ability to shift their sound and try their hand at new things.
But coming into their fourth album, they tried something seemingly radical: just being themselves. And the result is some of their most unflinching work yet.
Written on a desert retreat to the legendary Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree, The Grown-Ups Are Talking is the sound of a band reckoning with their past and maturing in real time. Whether they’re singing about betrayal on ‘Judas Beast’, ruminating on male suicide on…