Grownup Mother had been quiet for a couple of years there. Stevie Knipe’s DIY indie-pop group launched a one-off single and a Taylor Swift cowl in 2022, and there was nothing for a couple of extra years. There’s a great cause for that hiatus: Knipe was going by way of intensive most cancers remedy. Subsequent month, Grownup Mother will return with the brand new album Pure Causes; we’ve posted early tracks “Door Is Your Hand” and “Crystal.” Right now, they share the brand new track “Benadryl,” a fully devastating account of Knipe’s expertise with chemotherapy.
On “Benadryl,” Stevie Knipe sings over a spare backing of acoustic guitar and French horn, and so they sing about pondering that perhaps you’re about to die in a colorless medical workplace. It’s actually heavy: “For the primary of the six weeks, I felt like I might barely converse/ What would I say anyay?” Are you able to think about going by way of that after which singing about it and placing it on the market for the world to listen to? That’s an act of actual braveness.
In a press launch, Knipe says, “‘Benadryl’ is a track about going by way of chemotherapy after I first received recognized with breast most cancers in 2021. I needed the writing and manufacturing to mirror the distinct isolation that comes from most cancers remedy and sickness, and the way little by little, issues begin to really feel somewhat bit brighter, after which darkish once more.” Hear under.
Pure Causes is out 5/9 on Epitaph.
