Growth began in 2017 as a reflective space to explore the sorrows and sharp angles that come attendant with a lifelong diagnosis, aiming to find meaningful ways to channel the ugliest and most jarring fragments of the self. Debut album The Smothering Arms of Mercy was released in late 2020 and hailed as a ferocious depiction of suffering, sickness, and abandonment of hope. With time, however, the view inevitably broadens; beyond centring one’s lived experience on themes of early wounds and isolation, there lives an equally seething and vulnerable ugliness within the concept of moving on from trauma and grief. Growth can be benevolent, it can be malignant, but it’s never about comfort. There’s chaos in putting yourself back together.
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