Premiering on Arvos with Tommy Codling, ‘Grow Up’ is the formidable follow up to Efendi’s debut single and FBi fave ‘Waste of Space’.

Brisbane-based, Sunshine Coast-raised Chakra Efendi is 18 now and in his second studio single, adulthood looms large. Chakra cites his mother’s love of post-punk and his father’s EDM/hip-hop obsession as foundational influences on his music, but on ‘Grow Up’ it looks like mum won out. Disaffected vocals traipse through hollow arpeggiated guitars – slack elastic verses tighten into choruses of chugging anaphylaxis before mercifully unwinding again. This, on repeat.

In his own words, the song is a reflection on “the emotions that take place when shifting from adolescence into a more adult environment” and with ‘Grow Up’ he evokes the stop-start reality of a transition never cleanly realised, a tension never fully resolved. It’ll feature on a debut EP slated for release later this year, with an East Coast down-n-back scheduled for August/September.

‘Grow Up’ is part generational up yours and part cold-hard mirror looking. Fully worth getting your ears around.