Growing Pains

FOR RELEASE JULY 17, 2026

ANDY JANS-BROWN RELEASES NEW SINGLE GROWING PAINS

There is a peculiar feeling hanging over our time.

Not simply fear, nor grief, but a kind of collective emotional jet lag. Every day seems to

arrive carrying another crisis before we've had time to understand the last. We refresh our

phones, absorb another headline, another argument, another prediction, another

uncertainty, until the extraordinary begins to feel strangely ordinary.

It is this psychological landscape that Growing Pains inhabits.

The fifth single from Andy Jans-Brown's album Airport Departure Lounge, Growing

Pains uses the awkward transitions of adolescence to explore something far larger: the

feeling that perhaps we are all growing up at once. As individuals, as communities, and as

a civilisation trying to find its footing while the future arrives faster than we can absorb it.

Set against the backdrop of 1984, the song looks back on the hopes, fears and cultural

touchstones of youth while quietly asking how we navigate an era of accelerating change

without surrendering to fear. Rather than longing for a simpler past, Growing Pains

suggests that uncertainty has always been the price of becoming.

Like much of Airport Departure Lounge, the song inhabits a threshold. Using the modern

airport terminal as both setting and metaphor, the album explores those suspended

moments between endings and beginnings, certainty and doubt, fear and curiosity. It is an

indie rock record for people trying to find their bearings in a world that seems permanently

in transit.

Rather than offering easy answers, Airport Departure Lounge lingers in the waiting room

of history, asking what remains of our humanity when we are tired, overwhelmed and

bombarded by constant noise. Beneath the fluorescent lights and departure boards, it

searches for something quieter: connection, compassion, and the possibility that curiosity

might still prove stronger than fear.

In a subtle way, Growing Pains is a song about adaptation. Not adaptation as surrender,

but as maturity. The pain isn't evidence that something is wrong; it's evidence that

something is changing.

In an age increasingly defined by uncertainty, the song quietly suggests that perhaps our

collective anxiety is not simply a symptom of decline, but of transition. Perhaps the growing

pains we feel today belong not only to ourselves, but to an entire culture learning, however

awkwardly, how to live with the future.

It is a hopeful idea. That this hurts because we're growing, not because we're doomed.

Growing Pains gets propelled along the tarmac by Grant Gerathy’s batterie, and lifted into

flight by Cameron Spike-Porter’s cinematic guitar layering, where it meets the skies of

Jans-Brown’s heart in full flight.

The album was mixed by Cameron Spike-Porter and mastered by Jordan Power.

“There are albums that aren’t just listened to, they are inhabited” CR Indie

“Classic indie rock that enchants and fills stadiums with sing-alongs" – Portamento

“A magnificent masterpiece that you should start listening to right now” -Rockola Indie

Growing Pains will be available on all major streaming platforms.