Opening the album with an onslaught of blistering guitar, bouncing bass line and an irresistible vocal melody, ‘I Might Be Giant’ is about the feeling of being on top of the world after realizing you are completely irrelevant to the world in question. This song presented this idea as a rather soothing paradox and a full-hearted pitch for hope and motivation to cultivate life-affirming moments and connections.

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Now, they share ‘Litterbug!’ harnessing their irresistible indie-rock guitar wails and bouncing percussion for an ‘00’s-indebted anthem sure to enamour fans of Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral or Texas Is The Reason. ‘Litterbug!’ is a song that wrestles with the feeling of being completely scattered.

The band shares, “It’s about an awareness of littering your environment with your own clutter and your own racing thoughts with endless chatter, perpetually disorganized and entrapped by chaos. Knowing that these issues are self constructed is what makes the wound sting the most, and coming to terms with your own trash, your own litter, is the only way to actually find the guts to start picking it up.”

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Arriving alongside an official video, lead single ‘Fun Time Fix (We Go Go)’ beckons in a little escapism while inviting listeners to dance all your troubles away. The band shares, “Sometimes everyone needs a light-hearted time with friends, where you put whatever is causing you pain aside and let go. In the context of the album, which comments on the discomfort of growth, Fun Time Fix highlights the joy and beauty that exists in the midst of all the growing pains. We were inspired by early 2000’s dance pop that acted as soundtracks of our early adolescent years, and wanted to hone in on that nostalgia and what role it plays for blissful distraction during these current times in our adult lives.”

After writing songs during their overlapping one-year stint in Boston—inspired by the cerebral pop arrangements of Tegan and Sara’s The Con, the clean, poignant vocals of Jenny Lewis, and the yearning, hopeful indie rock of Broken Social Scene—Mediocre joined drummer Jake Pavlica and producer Danny Nogueiras (Together Pangea, No Win) in his Glassell Park studio with the goal of playful experimentation and with more confidence than ever. They emerged with a searingly thick power pop record that darts seamlessly between ‘00s dance-punk grooves, brazen pop-ballads and blistering guitar lines.

The album title Growth Eater, can be understood from numerous lenses, such as the harmful ways we eat away at ourselves, and by extension, the opportunity for positive growth when one finds the strength to sever bad habits that feast on our well-being. Forming Mediocre as high school sophomores best friends Piper Torrison and Keely Martin have faced huge life changes together. With timeless pop hooks, a mutual love and respect for each other and the world they have built, Growth Eater provides solace and solid ground to stay planted as the world finds new rugs to pull out from underneath you.

Growth Eater:

1. I Might Be Giant
2. Litterbug!
3. It Has To Mend
4. Make Me Your Mission
5. Interlude
6. Fun Time Fix (We Go Go)
7. Stepping Stool
8. Kindling

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Today, they reveal the final album single ‘Together Together’, self-described as “a swan song for the end of the world”. Playful, spunky, and emotional, the new song’s simplistic thrown-together feel is reminiscent of the White Stripes’ raw Elephant-era ditties infused with The Moldy Peaches-esque quirky lyricism and the funky drum beats of Luscious Jackson.

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The punchy upbeat immediacy of ‘Pop Song Baby’ is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, at once expertly disguising and underlining the song’s meaningful lyrics which are delivered with a resigned sarcasm and ‘90s alt-rock melancholy.

The band shares, “We wanted to write a song that our teenage selves would blast in our bedrooms. As femme musicians growing up in a predominantly male music scene, we pulled from our frustrations of being underestimated and pigeon-holed into certain archetypes. This song and video explores those pressures.”

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Originating in Los Angeles, the Boston-based rock duo Piper Torrison (She/They) and Keely Martin (She/Her) immediately get to twisting the lyrical knife with lead single ‘To Know You’re Screwed is to Know a Lot’.

It’s a once-in-a-generation sentiment, from Socrates on down to Operation Ivy: all I know is I know nothing. An ode to procrastination met with in-your-face lyricism and edge-of-your-seat rock ‘n’ roll, the song arrives today alongside a self-directed official video via Martin’s production company Bowie Nix.

The band shares, “We wanted to capture the chaotic and futile experience of running away from your own mess – literally and figuratively. Sometimes the awareness of being screwed is comforting, but sometimes ignorance is bliss.”

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